Inflect

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  • intransitive verb. To alter (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate.
  • intransitive verb. To alter (a word) by inflection.
  • intransitive verb. To turn from a course or a specified alignment; bend.
  • intransitive verb. To be modified by inflection.
  • intransitive verb. To give all of the inflected forms of a word; to provide a paradigm.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
  • transitive verb. To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
  • transitive verb. To modulate, as the voice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cause to curve inwards.
  • verb. To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • verb. To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. vary the pitch of one's speech
  • verb. change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
  • Word Usage
    "Just be careful how you inflect the acronym of that organization."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mouth  speak  talk  utter  verbalise  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    analyze  arch  bend  bend  bend back  
    verb-form