To reckon as pertaining or attributable; to charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense
attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; generally in a bad sense
If you impute something such as blame or a crime to someone, you say that they are responsible for it or are the cause of it. It is grossly unfair to impute blame to the United Nations. = attribute. impute to to say, often unfairly, that someone is responsible for something bad or has bad intentions