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To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

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  1. v. t. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
  2. v. t. To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
  3. v. t. To modulate, as the voice.
  4. v. word/change">change the word/form">form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
  5. v. vary the pitch of one's speech
  6. 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle Sir I. Newton. 2. (Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. 3. To modulate, as the voice.
  7. To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline,as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
  8. v:100 v. word/change">change the word/form">form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language