impute

/ɪmˈpjuːt/

verb

  1. 1

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

    “The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.”
  2. 2

    To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

  3. 3

    To take into account.

  4. 4

    To attribute or credit to.

    “People impute great cleverness to cats.”
  5. 5

    To replace missing data with substituted values.

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