Reforming Synonyms and Antonyms

To change one's conduct for the better
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. regenerating
  2. mending
  3. resolving
Correct, rectify
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. standardizing
  2. remedying
  3. rehabilitating
  4. redeeming
  5. regenerating
  6. rectifying
  7. ameliorating
  8. uplifting
  9. repealing
  10. abolishing
  11. amending
Antonyms:
  1. worsening
  2. hurting
  3. impairing

Reforming Sentence Examples

  • She forced me to experience all the pain I caused in my life, in the hopes of reforming me.

  • The diet of 1839 refused to proceed to business till the political prisoners had been released, and, while in the Lower Chamber the reforming majority was larger than ever, a Liberal party was now also formed in the Upper House under the brilliant leadership of Count Louis Batthyany and Baron Joseph EdtvOs.

  • The reforming efforts of the grand vizier Bairakdar, to whom he had owed his life and his accession, broke on the opposition of the janissaries; and Mahmud had to wait for more favourable times.

  • He relied more than ever on the support of the popular party, which then obtained the reforming Ordonnance Cabochienne (so called from Simon Caboche, a prominent member of the gild of the butchers).

  • But in Lent his celebrated sermons upon Amos were delivered in the duomo, and again he urged the necessity of reforming the church, striving by ingenious arguments to reconcile rebellion against Alexander with unalterable fidelity to the Holy See.

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