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Synonyms of reform in English:

reform


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verb

1‘a comprehensive plan to reform the health-care system’

SYNONYMS
improve, make better, better, ameliorate, refine, mend, rectify, correct, rehabilitate
alter, make alterations to, change, adjust, make adjustments to, adapt, amend, revise, recast, reshape, refashion, redesign, restyle, revamp, renovate, rework, redo, remake, rebuild, reconstruct, remodel, make over, remould, reorganize, revolutionize, reorient, reorientate, vary, transform, convert
customize, tailor
technical permute
rare permutate
ANTONYMS

preserve, maintain

2‘after his marriage he reformed’

SYNONYMS
mend one's ways, change for the better, change completely, make a fresh start, turn over a new leaf, become a new person, reconstruct oneself, improve, go straight, get back on the straight and narrow
ANTONYMS

worsen


noun

1‘the reform of the prison system’

SYNONYMS
improvement, betterment, amelioration, refinement, rectification, correction, rehabilitation
alteration, change, adjustment, adaptation, amendment, revision, recasting, reshaping, refashioning, redesigning, restyling, revamp, revamping, renovation, reworking, redoing, remake, rebuilding, reconstruction, remodelling, makeover, remoulding, reorganizing, reorganization, reorienting, reorientation, transformation, conversion
customizing, tailoring