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What does inflecting mean?

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  1. present participle of inflect
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By Winthrop Sargeant The New Yorker, March 14, 1959P. 91 The word referred to by psychologists as algolagnia means deriving a perverse joy from inflecting or submitting to the most squalid sort of human suffering.
Basque, a language isolate, is a highly inflected language, heavily inflecting both nouns and verbs.
It is partly this Southern influence that distinguishes him from other writers, the lilting accents of Kentucky and Tennessee inflecting his work.
But a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, claimed inflecting casualties on 10 Afghan security personnel and capture of several areas.
The second characteristic feature of Basque concerns the finite verb, which acts as a summary of all the noun phrases in the sentence by inflecting for tense, voice, person, number, and mood.
By inflecting its investment policy, SCOR Global Investments placed particular emphasis on the positioning of the investment portfolio with regard to major identified risks.

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