Definitions for inflect

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inflect in·flect

Spelling: [in-flekt]

IPA: /ɪnˈflɛkt/

Inflect is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in inflect (cefilnt).

Definitions for inflect

verb (used with object)

1. to modulate (the voice).
2. Grammar. to apply inflection to (a word). to recite or display all or a distinct set of the inflections of (a word); decline or conjugate.
3. to bend; turn from a direct line or course.
4. Botany. to bend in.

verb (used without object)

1. Grammar. to be characterized by inflection.

Origin of inflect

1375-1425; late Middle English inflecten Latin inflectere to bend in, equivalent to in- in-² + flectere to bend, curve; cf. flex

Examples for inflect

(e) To memorize words and to learn to inflect them, before memorizing and learning how to construct sentences.

And we yet retain an objective case of the pronoun, and inflect it for person, number and gender.

Now it would have been absurd to inflect a long English lesson.

Can you so inflect "sprawling in want" and "sitting high" as to suggest a swamp and a mountain-top, or a frog and an angel?