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inflect

verb as in modulate

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Your cultureSo many key maternal variables — a spouse’s role, the distance to the nearest grandparent — are socially inflected.

The Aces’ locker room, full again, rings with Cambage’s Aussie-inflected jokes and preemptive boasts.

Now it would have been absurd to inflect a long English lesson.

(e) To memorize words and to learn to inflect them, before memorizing and learning how to construct sentences.

And we yet retain an objective case of the pronoun, and inflect it for person, number and gender.

Can you so inflect "sprawling in want" and "sitting high" as to suggest a swamp and a mountain-top, or a frog and an angel?

Query to the class: How did the lady inflect the word Yes to call forth the injunction, Read it again?

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On this page you'll find 137 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inflect, such as: bend, buckle, bulge, coil, crumple, and curl.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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