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to ascribe
01
to attribute a particular quality, cause, or origin to someone or something
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
ascribe
3rd person singular
ascribes
Present participle
ascribing
Past simple
ascribed
Past participle
ascribed
Examples
Many historians ascribe the fall of the empire to a combination of economic and military factors.
Lexical Tree
ascribable
ascribe
