Synonyms of the word inflect


INFLECTMODIFY - MODULATE - MOUTH - SPEAK - TALK - TONE - UTTER - VERBALISE - VERBALIZE

inflect

  • v. (transitive) To cause to curve inwards.
  • v. (transitive, music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

modulate

  • v. (transitive) To regulate, adjust or adapt.
  • v. (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument.
  • v. (transitive, electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to…
  • v. (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

speak

  • v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
  • v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  • v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
  • v. (transitive) To utter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
  • v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
  • n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
  • n. Speach, conversation.
  • n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

tone

  • n. (music) A specific pitch.
  • n. (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  • n. (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  • n. The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  • n. General character, mood, or trend.
  • n. (linguistics) The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
  • n. (dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking…
  • n. (literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
  • n. (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
  • n. The shade or quality of a colour.
  • n. The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
  • n. The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ. see also: tonus.
  • n. (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy…
  • n. (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
  • v. (transitive) to give a particular tone to.
  • v. (transitive) to change the colour of.
  • v. (transitive) to make (something) firmer.
  • v. (intransitive) to harmonize, especially in colour.
  • v. (transitive) To utter with an affected tone.
  • pron. (now dialectal) The one (of two).

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

  • v. To speak or to use words to express.
  • v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

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