attribute sth to sb
— phrasal verb with attribute uk/əˈtrɪb.juːt/us/əˈtrɪb.juːt/verb
to think that someone or something has a particular quality or feature:
I wouldn't dream of attributing such a lack of judgment to you.
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- To what do you attribute your longevity?
- In a coda to the main exhibition are various works which were once attributed to Rembrandt.
- In this period, there were 974 outbreaks of communicable disease attributed to the consumption of raw milk.
- She attributes her record-breaking speed to the length of her stride.
- In 1953 he died of a heart attack attributed to drugs, alcohol and insomnia.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- investigate
- measure
- proof
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- store
- survey
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