inflect
verb/ɪnˈflɛkt/
Etymology
From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“to bend”).
- derived from īnflectō
Definitions
To cause to curve inwards.
To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
- The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.
To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
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To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
- In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.
The neighborhood
Derived
inflectable, inflection, inflective, inflexion, misinflect, noninflecting
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA