REFORMATORY Synonyms

• a device for treating injury or disease

• designed to promote discipline

• tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

• someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

• of or relating to punishment

• serving as or designed to impose punishment

• (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law

• inflicting punishment

• designed to accomplish rehabilitation

• helping to restore to good condition

• a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses

• a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices

• self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice

• make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices

• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

• produce by cracking

• break up the molecules of

• improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition

• change for the better

• correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders

• formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison

• tending to reform

• an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court)

• a school providing practical vocational and technical training

• correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders