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Impute: meaning, example and synonyms

Imputev. To attribute a fault, quality, or motive to someone or something.

Flashcard for Impute (verb): to attribute a fault, quality, or motive to someone or something. Example: Critics imputed sinister motives to the committee's delay, but the minutes show it was simply waiting for the soil tests to come back. Synonyms: attribute, ascribe, assign, credit. Antonyms: absolve, exonerate, clear. Memory tip: Impute = put (Latin putare, reckon) the blame IN someone's account. Illustration: a meeting room where several people in business clothes point accusingly at a calm committee member seated beside a stack of soil sample jars.

Example

Critics imputed sinister motives to the committee's delay, but the minutes show it was simply waiting for the soil tests to come back.

Part of speech
verb
Synonyms
attribute, ascribe, assign, credit
Antonyms
absolve, exonerate, clear
Memory tip
Impute = put (Latin putare, reckon) the blame IN someone's account.

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Question 1

Some early commentators ______ the crop failure to divine punishment, but modern botanists attribute it to a fungus carried on imported seed.

Question 2

It would be unfair to ______ dishonesty to the witness simply because her memory of the night's events faltered under hostile questioning.

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