verb🔗ShareTo cause to curve inwards."The carpenter used steam to inflect the wood inwards, creating a curved frame for the window. "physicsactionbodyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo 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."languagelinguisticsphoneticscommunicationmusicsoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc."The teacher asked the students to inflect the verb "walk" to show its past tense. "grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(grammar, of a word) 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."grammarlinguisticslanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo influence in style."No other poet has inflected me in style as much as Milton."stylelanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
