词汇 | impute |
释义 | phraseimpute[imputed, imputed, imputing] impute to 1. impute sth to sb/sth formal to say or believe, often wrongly, that someone or something has a particular quality, feeling, or meaning: Some literary scholars have imputed a different meaning to Blake's famous poem.2. impute sth to sb/sth formal to say, often unfairly, that someone is responsible for something bad that has happened or to say that something has caused it: The police were not guilty of the violence imputed to them. In their official report on the accident they presented evidence without imputing blame to anyone.■ SIMILAR TO: attribute to impute (something) to (someone or something)To attribute something to someone or something. I don't know, I impute her anxiety to all the instability she had to deal with as a kid. What have the investigators imputed the plane crash to? impute something to someone or somethingto ascribe something to someone or something; to attribute something to someone or something. I didn't mean to impute a bad intention to your company. The lawyer imputed perjury to the witness. |
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