Crossword-Solution: INFLECT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inflect | v. t. | To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. |
| Inflect | 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. |
| Inflect | v. t. | To modulate, as the voice. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “INFLECT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alter in tone | 1 answer |
| Change in tone or pitch | 1 answer |
| Vary the pitch of, as the voice | 1 answer |
| change (the voice) in tone or pitch | 1 answer |
| Change (a word) – vary (a pitch) | 1 answer |
| parse | 7 answers |
| modulate | 8 answers |
| bend inwards | 12 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with INFLECT (5)
They inflect both their nouns and verbs regularly; and denote the cases of the former and the tenses of the latter, not like the English by auxiliary words, but like the Latins by change of termination.
Well, I never had no particular yearnin' to inflect him with none o' my germs, but when she was off gallivantin', an' that poor little lonesome fella used to cry, an' put out his arms to be took, I'd take'm, an' give'm the only reel mother-huggin' he ever had in his life, an' no harm to any of us--to me that give it, or him that got it, or her that was no wiser.
Like «capiō», inflect «faciō, facere», _make, do_ «fugiō, fugere», _flee_ «iaciō, iacere», _hurl_ «rapiō, rapere», _seize_ «161.» «The Imperative Mood.» The imperative mood expresses a command; as, _come!_ _send!_ The present tense of the imperative is used only in the second person, singular and plural.
Inflect «laudō», «necō», «portō», «moveō», «dēleō», «iubeō», in the present, imperfect, and future indicative, active and passive.
Very soon appeal has to be made to common sense, that is to say, to the continuous experience of the real, in order to inflect the consequences deduced and bend them along the sinuosities of life.
Quotes with INFLECT (1)
I remain ‘torn’ (between a ‘hyberbolic’ ethical vision of forgiveness, pure forgiveness, and the reality of a society at work in pragmatic processes of reconciliation). But without power, desire, or need to decide. The two poles are irreducible to one another, certainly, but they remain indissociable. In order to inflect politics, or what you just called the ‘pragmatic processes’, in order to change the law (which, thus, finds itself between the two poles, the ‘ideal’ and the…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2015).