Usually means: Change form to express grammatical function.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word inflect:

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  1. inflect: Merriam-Webster
  2. inflect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inflect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inflect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inflect: Vocabulary.com
  6. inflect: Wordnik
  7. inflect: Wiktionary
  8. inflect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inflect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inflect: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Inflect, inflect: Dictionary.com
  12. inflect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Inflect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. inflect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inflect: Rhymezone
  16. Inflect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inflect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inflect: FreeDictionary.org
  19. inflect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. inflect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. inflect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. inflect: Encyclopedia

(Note: See inflectable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
verb:  (transitive, music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, grammar, of a word) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To influence in style.

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