Inflect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To alter (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate.
  • v. Grammar To alter (a word) by inflection.
  • v. To turn from a course or a specified alignment; bend.
  • verb-intransitive. Grammar To be modified by inflection.
  • verb-intransitive. Grammar To give all of the inflected forms of a word; to provide a paradigm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cause to curve inwards.
  • v. To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • v. To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
  • v. To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
  • v. To modulate, as the voice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bend; turn from a direct line or course.
  • In grammar, to vary, as a noun or verb, by change of form, especially in regard to endings; decline, as a noun or adjective, or conjugate, as a verb; more specifically, to denote a change of office in (words), not by added elements only, but more or less by alteration of the stem or root itself.
  • To modulate, as the voice.
  • To receive inflection; undergo grammatical changes of form.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. vary the pitch of one's speech
  • v. change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
  • Verb Form
    inflected    inflecting    inflects   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mouth    verbalise    speak    verbalize    utter    talk   
    Cross Reference
    curve    decline    deflect    conjugate   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bend    curve    bow    decline    conjugate    compare    modulate