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ascribe v : attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, assign, attribute]

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From ascribo, from ad- "to" + scribo.

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a RP /əˈskraɪb/

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To attribute; to impute; to refer, as to a cause.
To attribute, as death to a poison.
To attribute an effect to the right cause.
To attribute a book to an author.

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accredit, adduce, advance, affix, allege, apply, assign, attach, attach to, attribute, charge, cite, conjecture, connect with, credit, fasten, fix, give, guess, impute, lay, pin on, place, put, refer, saddle, surmise

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