Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to attribute to a cause or source:
Русский
By meaning 2
to attribute to a cause or source:
to ascribe sin or righteousness:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to attribute to a cause or source:
to ascribe sin or righteousness:
to take account of; regard:
to attribute or credit to:

Examples

1 sentences

  1. It seems probable that the licentiousness ordinarily imputed to Sappho may be a calumny.

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Meaning

5 senses

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

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

    zuschreiben

    вменятьvmenjatʹ

    приписуватиprypysuvaty

    attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

  2. (transitive)To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to.

    People impute great cleverness to cats.

    zuschreiben, unterstellen

    припи́сыватьpripísyvatʹ

    attribute or credit to

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

    anrechnen, zurechnen

    припи́сыватьpripísyvatʹ

More meanings 2

  1. (transitive)To take into account.

    in Betracht ziehen, einbeziehen, einberechnen

  2. (transitive)To replace missing data with substituted values.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, char

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

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Forms

imputes, imputing, imputed, imputed

regular · Lesson

Base formimpute · to impute
3rd person singularimputes
Present participleimputing
Past simpleimputed
Past participleimputed

Tenses

impute · imputed · will impute · have imputed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyimpute
he, she, itimputes

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave imputed
he, she, ithas imputed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill impute

Past simpleLesson

all personsimputed

Synonyms

17 synonyms
To attribute or ascribe to a cause or source:attributeB2chargeB1implyB2attachB1drawA1layB1reposeC2insinuateaccreditascribechalk up toput down to
To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to:assignB1allegeC1
To take into account:considerA2regardB1reckonB2
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words
Relatedimputation
Derivedimputabilityimputableimputablenessimputablyimputativeimputedmisimpute

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
impunityimpureimpurityinA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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