inflecting
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Inflect \In*flect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, and cf. Inflex.]
1.To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. [1913 Webster]
Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ?— Sir I. Newton.[1913 Webster]
2.(Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. [1913 Webster]
3.To modulate, as the voice. [1913 Webster]