To cause to curve inwards.
To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.
(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
(grammar, of a word) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.
To influence in style.
No other poet has inflected me in style as much as Milton.