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Verb: impute  im'pyoot
  1. Attribute or credit to
    "People impute great cleverness to cats"
    - ascribe, assign, attribute
     
  2. Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
    "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"

Derived forms: imputed, imputes, imputing

See also: imputation

Type of: evaluate, judge, pass judgment

Encyclopedia: Impute