impute

About 0.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

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

2. verb To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
3. verb To take into account.
4. verb To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to.

   People impute great cleverness to cats.

5. verb To replace missing data with substituted values.

Similar words

ascribe attribute assign allude allocate apportion charge affect blame put down to

Often followed by

to the it a this any such them that his

Word family

imputabilities imputability imputable imputed imputes imputing