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inflect verb (inflected, inflecting) 1 a grammar to change the form of (a word) to show eg tense, number, gender or grammatical case; b intrans said of a word, language, etc: to change, or to be able to be changed, to show (or agree in) tense, number, gender, grammatical case, etc. See note at inflection. 2 to vary the tone or pitch of (the voice, a note, etc); to modulate. 3 to bend inwards.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c in sense 4: from Latin inflectere to curve.