English dictionary

impute

/I/m'p/j//u/t/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

attribute or credit to

verb.cognition

Examples
People impute great cleverness to cats.

Synonyms ascribe assign attribute

Source: WordNet 3.0
attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

verb.cognition

Examples
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

Source: WordNet 3.0
To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.

verb

Source: webster1913