impute

/im-ˈpyüt/

Middle English, from Anglo-French imputer, from Latin imputare, from in- + putare to consider

verb

  1. to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly

  2. to credit or ascribe (something) to a person or a cause : attribute

The economic sins imputed to Tito had all been committed to a greater extent by the communist parties of neighbouring countries.

ascribe attribute assign impute credit mean to lay something to the account of a person or thing. ascribe suggests an inferring or conjecturing of cause, quality, authorship. attribute suggests less tentativeness than ascribe, less definiteness than assign.