impute
(verb)
verb
1. attribute or credit to
- People impute great cleverness to cats
Similar word(s): ascribe, assign, attribute
Definition categories: cognition, evaluate, judge
2. attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
- The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
Definition categories: cognition, ascribe, assign, attribute, impute
Sentences with impute as a verb:
- We imputed this quotation to Shakespeare.