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/ɪmˈpjuːt/ · verb
(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source..
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, / If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, / Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air.
He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace "imputes" the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this "imputation" would not be "made" righteous at all.
They ſerved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Conſtantinople excited his jealouſy: he threatened their lives; the new works were inſtantly demoliſhed; and we ſhall beſtow a praiſe, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this laſt humiliation as the cauſe of his death.
People impute great cleverness to cats.
Use impute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Impute means (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source..
Common synonyms include attribute, insinuate, charge, imply.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
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