had been reforming

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of reform.
  reform

  noun

  the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc..

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• amend
• improve
• rebuild
• rehabilitate
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• renovate
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• repair
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• restore
• revise
• revolutionize
• standardize
• transform