impute
verb (used with object)
to attribute or ascribe.
has imputed
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present perfectof impute (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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There is a further security against the wanton and bootless mischief which fear or design has imputed to the Bank of the United States.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
This attitude was dictated by honour; the multitude has imputed it to flattery.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
"My father," replied Gilbert, "has imputed to His Holiness a want of firmness."
From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by George Henry Miles
They acknowledge, that if any proof can be produced of the crimes which calumny has imputed to them, they are worthy of the most severe punishment.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Henry Hart Milman
The Chronicle, I see, has reported what he thought or heard I said, but he has imputed to me what I neither felt nor uttered.
From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by David Ricardo
