| ADJECTIVE | all | reformative, reformatory | tending to reform |
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| Meaning | tending to reform. | |
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| Example | "reformative and rehabilitative agencies" | |
| Synonym | reformatory | |
| Broader | helpful | Providing assistance or serving a useful function |
| Spanish | reformatorio | |
| Catalan | reformatori | |
| Verbs | reform | make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices |
| reform | bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | |
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