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Synonyms and Antonyms of ascribe
to explain (something) as being the result of something else
- ascribed their stunning military victory to good intelligence beforehand
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ascribe, attribute, assign, impute, credit mean to lay something to the account of a person or thing. ascribe suggests an inferring or conjecturing of cause, quality, authorship.
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- forged paintings formerly ascribed to masters
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- attributed to Rembrandt but possibly done by an associate
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- assigned the bones to the Cretaceous period
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- tried to impute sinister motives to my actions
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- credited his teammates for his success
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