- to alter, adapt, or modulate (the voice).
- to alter or adapt in tone or character: the power of storytelling inflected through a feminist sensibility; jazz-inflected music.
- 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.
- to bend; turn from a direct line or course.
- to bend in.
- to be characterized by inflection.
- to change (the form of a word) or (of a word) to change in form by inflection
- to change (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate
- to cause to deviate from a straight or normal line or course; bend
