All 4 Uses

attribute
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
(Edited)

For the rest of his life, his was to be a classic case history of that vague, borderline form of A-bomb sickness in which a person's body developed a rich repertory of symptoms, few of which could be positively attributed to radiation, but many of which turned up in hibakusha, in various combinations and degrees, so often as to be blamed by some doctors and almost all patients on the bomb.†
Chpt 5

attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)
She thought him — under the shortness, which she attributed to pain — gentle, pure, patient, sweet, humorous, and deeply kind.†
Chpt 5 *
Besides continuing difficulties with her leg, she had endured for some years a pattern of ailments which — as with so many hibakusha — might or might not have been attributable to the bomb: liver dysfunction, night sweats and morning fevers, borderline angina, blood spots on her legs, and signs in blood tests of a rheumatoid factor.
Chpt 5

attributable = caused by

standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
She had a miscarriage, which she and her family attributed to the bomb.†
Chpt 5

attributed = credited (pointed to as the cause of something)

Definitions:

(1) (attribute as in: It is an attribute of...)
a characteristic or feature (of something or someone)
(2) (attribute as in: I attribute it to...)
to credit (a source for something)
in two typical senses:
- "I attribute it to her work." -- to say who or what made something happen
- "Remember to attribute any quotations in your paper." -- indicate the source of a quotation or idea
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)