inflect

Verb

Meaning

To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

To modulate, as the voice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tone modulate arch bend air turn flex vary voice round wind decline curve loop alternate
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Antonyms

direct rest blight cuddle concrete wooden
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Hypernyms

speak mouth talk modify utter verbalize

Hyponyms

decline compare conjugate pluralize pluralise

Derivatives

inflected inflecting

Examples

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it. Dick Cavett

Coptic verbs can therefore be said to inflect for the person, number and gender of the subject. Source: Internet

Bambara does not inflect for gender. Source: Internet

However, the majority of words in all Indo-European languages inflect without ablaut, as cat, cats and walk, walked do in English. Source: Internet

Chinese does not inflect verbs for tense like English and other European languages. Source: Internet

Latin and the Romance languages inflect verbs for tense–aspect–mood (abbreviated 'TAM'), and they agree in person and number (but not in gender, as for example in Polish ) with the subject. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

inflator inflatory inflatus inflectable inflected inflectedness