inflect

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈflɛkt/

Definition of inflect

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To cause to curve inwards.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To cause to curve inwards.
  2. (transitive)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.”
  3. (transitive)To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  4. (intransitive)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.”

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Etymology

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

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