<p><strong>Verb</strong> (used with object)</p><ul><li>To alter, adapt, or modulate (the voice).</li><li>To alter or adapt in tone or character: jazz-inflected music.</li><li>The power of storytelling inflected through a feminist sensibility.</li><li>Grammar: To apply inflection to (a word).</li><li>To recite or display all or a distinct set of the inflections of (a word); decline or conjugate.</li><li>To bend; turn from a direct line or course.</li><li>Botany: To bend in.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used without object)</p><ul><li>Grammar: To be characterized by inflection.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>