inflect

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cause to curve inwards.
2. verb 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. verb To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
4. verb 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.

Similar words

modulate incurve incurvate inflex curl bend curb curve round incline

Often followed by

the for and it a their in his our

Word family

inflectable inflected inflecting inflective inflects