inflect.
To cause to curve inwards.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“to bend”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.