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They impute sinister motives to their opponents.impute = attribute
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The challenger tries to impute all of our problems to the current administration.impute = blame (assign blame)
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Though the final design was a team effort, much of the success was imputed to her leadership.imputed = credited (assigned credit)
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The IRS uses a formula to impute tips.impute = calculate and assign a value (to something)
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She is too quick to generalize and impute personality traits based upon stereotypes.impute = attribute
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The court did not impute fault on either party.impute = attribute or assign
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They made up stories to impute that she is heartless.†impute = say (someone has a characteristic)
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If your objects and opinions have been misunderstood, if the measures and principles of others have wrongly been imputed to you, as I believe they have been, that you should leave an explanation of them would he an act of justice to yourself. (source)imputed = attributed
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We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heart that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter—the letter A—marked out in lines of dull red light. (source)impute = attribute (think this was caused by)
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Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. (source)imputation = the act of attributing a characteristic to someonestandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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the imputations of his motives;† (source)
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Naturally, I felt the temptation to deny immediately and unambiguously such motivations as my employer was imputing to me, but saw in time that to do so could be to rise to Mr Farraday's bait, and the situation would only become increasingly embarrassing. (source)imputing = attributing
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The mythological figure of the Universal Mother imputes to the cosmos the feminine attributes of the first, nourishing and protecting presence.† (source)imputes = says one thing is the cause of another
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32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She imputeth" in older English, today we say "She imputes."
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No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.† (source)imputable = able to attribute (say one thing is the cause of another)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Imputest thou that to my default, or will Of wandering, as thou callest it, which who knows But might as ill have happened thou being by, Or to thyself perhaps?† (source)Imputest = say one thing is the cause of anotherstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou imputest" in older English, today we say "You impute."
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What he wanted to say was stronger in him when he was alone; and though he imputed to Max the feelings he wanted to grasp, he could not talk of them to Max until he had forgotten Max's presence. (source)imputed = attributed (something as a characteristic of someone)
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