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inflective
Variant of inflect
transitive verb
- to turn, bend, or curve, usually inward
- to vary or change the tone or pitch of (the voice); modulate
- Gram. to change the form of (a word) by inflection, as in conjugating or declining
intransitive verb
to be changed by inflection
Related Forms:
- inflective adjective
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