reform
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4.4
- noun
- /rɪˈfɔrm/
:
rehabilitación
- Natalie with her good-girl forehead and me fresh out of reform school.
- moral reform
Mumford's Emersonian approach to architecture and urbanism aimed toward moral reform.
- Mumford's Emersonian approach to architecture and urbanism aimed toward moral reform.
- I would end up in jail, reform school or the grave.
Examples
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When he was 15, he was in reform school.
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Oh, she'll probably go to reform school.
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I was in reform school.
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Uh, they sent me to a reform school in Pennsylvania.
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We've been hired by your mother to get you on a plane and into a reform program.
Fiction book (1998) -
You're on a one-way ticket to reform school.
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He has been in and out of prisons and reform schools since 12 years of age.
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After spending time in a reform program, he successfully changed his behavior and left his harmful habits behind.
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The reform of juvenile offenders aims to help them develop better moral values and behaviors.
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She participated in a local reform initiative that focused on helping young people overcome their past mistakes.
Synonyms
2
4.9
The act of becoming better after doing wrong
1
6.6
Help that brings a person back to good behaviour after doing wrong
Making serious changes in your own behavior and character to become a better person
Antonyms
43
5.9
A slow change when something like a building or a person's health becomes worse
Compounds
12
3.4
Changes to make a country's health care system better and help more people get care
- Archaic
10
6.8
A school where young people who break the law learn rules and work skills
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4.2
Government action that takes farm land from large owners and gives it to small farmers
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5.0
A modern branch of Judaism that treats tradition in a more open, flexible way to fit modern life
How Reformed
Surface Forms
Etymology
A person's reform comes from re- ('again') and formare ('to shape'), so reform means the process of 'shaping' someone again to leave harmful habits and live better.