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noun 
  1. Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
Translations: 
    verb 
    1. To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
    2. To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
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      Etymology: réforme

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