Definition of "inflect" [in•flect]

• To alter (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate. (verb-transitive)
• Grammar To alter (a word) by inflection. (verb-transitive)
• To turn from a course or a specified alignment; bend. (verb-transitive)
• Grammar To be modified by inflection. (verb-intransitive)
• Grammar To give all of the inflected forms of a word; to provide a paradigm. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Just be careful how you inflect the acronym of that organization."
• "They often use primitive weapons rocks, blunt objects and machetes to conserve their limited munitions and inflect maximum brutality."
• ""If I could inflect pain, I inflicted it to the max," Gore declared, describing how he had scalped several victims to satisfy a hair fetish."