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impute.

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

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɪmˈpjuːt/Received-Pronunciation/ɪmˈpjut/Canada, General-American/ɪmˈpjʉːt/Australia/əmˈpjʉːt/New-Zealand
  1. To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

    transitive
    The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
  2. To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.

    transitive
  3. To take into account.

    transitive
  4. To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to.

    transitive
    People impute great cleverness to cats.
  5. To replace missing data with substituted values.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

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

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