verb🔗ShareTo cause to curve inwards."The accident inflected the metal beam, causing it to bend sharply inward. "physicsChat 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."musicsoundlanguagecommunicationphoneticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc."The verb "walk" can be inflected to show past tense, becoming "walked." "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."grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo influence in style."No other poet has inflected me in style as much as Milton."stylelanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareDeviating from a straight line."The path to the park was inflected, curving gently to the left before heading south. "directionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share(grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word)."The verb "walk" is inflected differently depending on the tense: "walk," "walked," and "walking." "grammarlinguisticslanguagewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareHaving inflected word forms; fusional."(An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.)"grammarlinguisticswordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareBent or curved inward or downward"The tired runner's head was inflected toward the ground as she struggled to finish the race. "appearanceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
