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Inflect

//ɪnˈflɛkt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to curve inwards. transitive
  2. 2
    vary the pitch of one's speech wordnet
  3. 3
    To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing. transitive

    "The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation."

  4. 4
    change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language wordnet
  5. 5
    To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc. transitive
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  1. 6
    To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc. intransitive

    "In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English."

Etymology

From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“I bend”).

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