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Imputes
To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
📖 Definitions of "Imputes"
verb
- 1
To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness."
- 2
To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
- 3
To take into account.
- 4
To attribute or credit to.
"People impute great cleverness to cats."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Imputes"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ascribeverb | (transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something. |
| attributeverb | (transitive) To associate ownership or authorship of (something) to someone. |
| assignverb | (transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose. |
| ascribesverb | (transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something. |
| inheresverb | (uncommon) To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something. |
| discernsverb | (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry. |
| obfuscatesverb | To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth. |
| inuresverb | (transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. |
| premisingverb | To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument. |
| vitiatesverb | (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something. |
| malignsverb | (transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce. |
| infersverb | (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. |
| inculpateverb | (law) To imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate. |
| abetsverb | (transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. |
| adducesverb | (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. |
| dissemblesverb | (transitive) To disguise or conceal something. |
| exculpatesverb | To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate. |
| presupposesverb | To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth. |
| impugnsverb | (transitive) To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of; cast doubt on. |
| gainsaidverb | (transitive, formal) To say something in contradiction to. |
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