impute
Verb
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Attribute or credit to (synset 200728262)
"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"subtypes:
- impute - attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
- carnalize, sensualize - ascribe to an origin in sensation
- credit - give someone credit for something
- reattribute - attribute to another source
- anthropomorphise, anthropomorphize - ascribe human features to something
- personate, personify - attribute human qualities to something
- accredit, credit - ascribe an achievement to
- blame, charge - attribute responsibility to
- externalise, externalize, project - regard as objective
- interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalize - incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
verb group: impute - attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source -
Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source (synset 200728746)
"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
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