impute sth to sb
formal— phrasal verb with impute uk/ɪmˈpjuːt/us/ɪmˈpjuːt/verb
(ACCUSE)
to say that someone is responsible for something that has happened, or that something is the cause of something else:
They imputed the error to the lawyer who was handling her case.
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Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduce
- deduction
- diagnosis
- exclude
- extrapolate
- gather
- induction
- inductive
- infer
- inference
- must
- perceive
- put
- put sth down to sth
- put two and two together idiom
- reason
- syllogism
- two
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(BELIEVE)
to believe that someone or something has a particular characteristic, quality, or meaning:
He arrogantly imputed stupidity to anyone who disagreed with him.
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Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- fertility
- foundation
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- run riot idiom
- suspicion
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