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inflect

verb
verb
BrE BrE//ɪnˈflekt//
; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈflekt//
[intransitive] (grammar)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they inflect
BrE BrE//ɪnˈflekt//
; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈflekt//
 he / she / it inflects
BrE BrE//ɪnˈflekts//
; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈflekts//
 past simple inflected
BrE BrE//ɪnˈflektɪd//
; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈflektɪd//
 past participle inflected
BrE BrE//ɪnˈflektɪd//
; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈflektɪd//
 -ing form inflecting
BrE BrE//ɪnˈflektɪŋ//
; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈflektɪŋ//
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if a word inflects, its ending or spelling changes according to its grammatical function in a sentence; if a language inflects, it has words that do this Verbs inflect for tense and person. Most languages of the world inflect. Wordfindergrammarcase, conjugate, gender, grammar, inflect, noun, part of speech, singular, subject, tense Oxford Collocations DictionaryInflect is used with these nouns as the subject: verbInflect is used with these nouns as the object: noun, verb See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (originally in a technical sense, ‘to bend’ or ‘deflect something’): from Latin inflectere, from in- ‘into’ + flectere ‘to bend’.
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