inflecting

Verb

inflect (third-person singular simple present inflects, present participle inflecting, simple past and past participle inflected)

1. (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.

   Synonyms:

   inbend

2. (transitive) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
   • The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.
3. (transitive) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
4. (intransitive) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
   • In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.