Definition of inflect

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Inflect (v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb..

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Heteroclite :: Heteroclite (n.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension..
Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb..
Conjugate :: Conjugate (v. t.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons..
Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..
Conjugation :: Conjugation (n.) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Inflectional :: Inflectional (a.) Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection..
Inflected :: Inflected (a.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective..
Particle :: Particle (n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely..
Flectional :: Flectional (a.) Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection..
Masculine :: Masculine (a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender..
Anaptotic :: Anaptotic (a.) Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages..
Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection..
Analogy :: Analogy (n.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly..
Declension :: Declension (n.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases..
Aptotic :: Aptotic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages..
Compare :: Compare (v. t.) To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing - er and -est to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing more and most, or less and least, to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful..
Deflectionize :: Deflectionize (v. t.) To free from inflections.
Inflexure :: Inflexure (n.) An inflection; a bend or fold.
Declinable :: Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech..
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