misinflect

verb

Etymology

From mis- + inflect.

Definitions

  1. To inflect incorrectly.

    • Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns.
    • In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns).
    • This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misinflect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA