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inflex

inflex verb: to bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.

Verb

inflex (third-person singular simple present inflexes, present participle inflexing, simple past and past participle inflexed)

  1. To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
    • inflexing eyebrows
    • inflexing of the teeth

Forms of inflex

Verb
third-person singular presentinflexes
present participleinflexing
past participleinflexed
pastinflexed
Noun
pluralinflexes

Origin of inflex

Compare flex, inflect.

Questions about inflex

What does inflex mean?
Inflex means to bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
What part of speech is inflex?
Inflex is a verb.
What is the past tense of inflex?
The past tense of inflex is inflexed.

Words near inflex in the dictionary

  1. inflects
  2. inflesh
  3. infleshed
  4. infleshes
  5. infleshing
  6. inflex
  7. inflexed
  8. inflexedly
  9. inflexes
  10. inflexibilities
  11. inflexibility

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