inflecting Definition

inflect
verb inflected, inflecting

1a. grammar.
To change the form of (a word) to show eg tense, number, gender or grammatical case;
intr
1b. Said of a word, language, etc: to change, or to be able to be changed, to show (or agree in) tense, number, gender, grammatical case, etc. See note at inflection.
2. To vary the tone or pitch of (the voice, a note, etc); to modulate.
3. To bend inwards.

Etymology: 15c in sense 4: from Latin inflectere to curve.