impute

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb attribute or credit to
  2. verb attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

ascribe, assign, attribute

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