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Ascribe

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.

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Verb group 2

Impute 84% connected

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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Impute 84% connected

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…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Accredit 76% connected

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Anthropomorphize 76% connected

To attribute a human form or personality to.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Blame 76% connected

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Carnalize 76% connected

To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Credit 76% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Externalize 76% connected

To make external; to manifest by outward form.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impute 76% connected

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Personate 76% connected

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Personify 76% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sensualize 76% connected

To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 2

Evaluate 76% connected

To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Assign 92% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Attribute 92% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Impute 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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