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Reflate
- verb - become inflated again
- economics: experience reflation; "The economy reflated after the Fed took extreme measures"
- economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation; "These measures reflated the economy"
- inflate again; "reflate the balloon"
Reflect
- verb - be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully--the wet road reflects"
- give evidence of a certain behavior; "His lack of interest in the project reflects badly on him"
- give evidence of the quality of; "The mess in his dorm room reflects on the student"
- manifest or bring back; "This action reflects his true beliefs"
- reflect deeply on a subject;
- show an image of; "her sunglasses reflected his image"
- to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
Refloat
- verb - set afloat again; "refloat a grounded boat"
Refocus
- verb - focus anew; "The group needs to refocus its goals"
- focus once again; The physicist refocused the light beam"
- put again into focus or focus more sharply; "refocus the image until it is very sharp"
Reforge
- verb - cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state"
Reforms
- noun - a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"
- a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
- break up the molecules of; "reform oil"
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- change for the better;
- improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"
- make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"
- produce by cracking; "reform gas"
- self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
Refract
- verb - determine the refracting power of (a lens)
- subject to refraction; "refract a light beam"
Refrain
- noun - choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"
- resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
Reframe
- - To frame again or anew.