verb (v)

• attribute or credit to(verb.cognition)

  Example:
  People impute great cleverness to cats.
  

  Synonym:
  ascribe, assign, attribute
  

  source: wordnet30
• attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source(verb.cognition)

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

  source: wordnet30
• To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.(verb)

  source: webster1913