English verb: impute | |||
1. | impute (cognition) attribute or credit to | ||
Samples | We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare. People impute great cleverness to cats. | ||
Synonyms | ascribe, assign, attribute | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something to somebody. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | evaluate, judge, pass judgment | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | accredit, anthropomorphise, anthropomorphize, blame, carnalize, charge, credit, credit, externalise, externalize, impute, interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalize, personate, personify, project, reattribute, sensualize | ||
Verb group | impute | ||
2. | impute (cognition) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | ||
Samples | The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness. | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something to somebody. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | ascribe, assign, attribute, impute | ||
Verb group | ascribe, assign, attribute, impute | ||