impute.
To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
Meaning & usage
To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
To take into account.
To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to.
People impute great cleverness to cats.
To replace missing data with substituted values.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).
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