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misinflect en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + inflect.

Meanings

1. To inflect incorrectly.
   • They managed, in repeating his name like the echoing mountains, to mispronounce or misinflect every syllable of it. 1998, Starling Lawrence, Montenegro: A Novel, page 31:
   • This is one reason why one inclines to quotation in discussing his writing . Any paraphrase that even slightly misinflects his descriptions runs the risk of near-total distortion. 1989 ·, Richard Fleming, Michael Payne, The Senses of Stanley Cavell, page 234:
   • In consulting them, the reader should bear in mind that the singers use a variety of hiatus bridges ( j, h, v, etc.; all italicized in text) and not seldom misinflect words (sometimes under the pressure of sound-patterns). 1980, Elinor Shaffer, Comparative Criticism:
   • Thus the student is taught from the very beginning to misinflect an important class of German nouns. 1869, The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly, page 264:

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