impute

Verbs

  • (v) attribute or credit to
    • We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
    • People impute great cleverness to cats
    ascribe, attribute, assign,
  • (v) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
    • The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness

Synonyms

ascribe attribute assign

Words of close approximity

impugn impure