To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects; put into a better form or condition, To induce or persuade (a person) to give up harmful or immoral practices; cause to adopt a better way of life, To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits, transitive verb_ 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, verb_ 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, improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition, break up the molecules of, noun_ a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses, a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices, Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government, adjective_ Relating to or favoring reform, Of or relating to Reform Judaism

professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage