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To cause to curve inwards.

To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.

Example: The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.

(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

(grammar, of a word) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

Example: In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.

Deviating from a straight line.

(grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).

Having inflected word forms; fusional.

Example: (An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.)

Bent or curved inward or downward