impute
C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To attribute something, especially a fault, to someone.
It would be unfair to impute dishonesty to her on such flimsy evidence.
Law verb
To attribute a fault or liability to a person.
The negligence of the delivery driver was imputed to the company that employed him.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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