reform
n 1: a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses;
"justice was for sale before the reform of the law
courts"
2: a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the
reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"
3: self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some
vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
v 1: make reforms in; change for the better; "reform a political
system"
2: subject to spiritual regeneration [syn: {regenerate}]
3: produce by cracking, of oil or gas
4: break up the molecules (of oil or gas)
5: change for the better; "The lazy student promised to reform"
[syn: {straighten out}]