To Impute

1. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.

(transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. quotations ▼

(transitive) To take into account; to consider; to regard. quotations ▼

(transitive) To attribute or credit to. quotations ▼

People impute great cleverness to cats.

(transitive) To replace missing data with substituted values. quotations ▼

ascribe, assign, attribute, charge, reckon, consider, imply, insinuate