impute

impute

verb

Definition of IMPUTE

to explain (something) as being the result of something else <people often impute his silence to unfriendliness and not to the shyness it really represents>

Synonyms accredit, ascribe, attribute, chalk up, impute, lay, put down

Related Words blame, charge, father (on), impute (to), pin (on); assign, refer; associate, attach, connect, link