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Attribute

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).

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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…

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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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Abstraction 76% connected

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.

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Concept 76% connected

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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Conception 76% connected

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Construct 76% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Evaluate 76% connected

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

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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…

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Accredit 76% connected

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

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Anthropomorphize 76% connected

To attribute a human form or personality to.

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Blame 76% connected

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

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Carnalize 76% connected

To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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Charge 76% connected

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

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Classify 76% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Credit 76% connected

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

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Denominate 76% connected

To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Externalize 76% connected

To make external; to manifest by outward form.

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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…

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Personate 76% connected

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

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Personify 76% connected

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

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Project 76% connected

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

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Relegate 76% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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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.

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Ballast 76% connected

Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

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Character 76% connected

A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Characteristic 76% connected

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; di…

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Cheer 76% connected

The face; the countenance or its expression.

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Cheerfulness 76% connected

Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

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Depth 76% connected

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the…

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Heritage 76% connected

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

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Infinite 76% connected

Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.

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Inheritance 76% connected

The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

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Lineament 76% connected

One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the p…

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Personality 76% connected

That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Sunniness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sunny.

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Sunshine 76% connected

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Time 76% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Derivationally related 4

Ascription 74% connected

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ascription 74% connected

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Imputation 74% connected

The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.

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Imputation 74% connected

The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.

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Synonym 5

Ascribe 92% connected

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 boo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Assign 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dimension 92% connected

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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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Property 92% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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