PV - Ascribe sth to sb/sth

Ascribe sth to sb/sth (formal)

*To believe that a particular person wrote a book or a piece of music, painted a picture etc. so that people generally accept this to be true: A work ascribed to Homer.

*To believe that something or someone has a particular quality: Local people ascribe healing properties to this fruit.

*To claim that something has been written, said, made, etc. by a particular person: A quotation that’s often been ascribed to Marilyn Monroe.

*To claim that something is caused by a particular person, situation, etc.: The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.

*To consider that something is caused by a particular thing or person: He ascribed his failure to bad luck.

*To consider that somebody or something has or should have a particular quality: We ascribe great importance to these policies.

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*To believe that someone or something has a particular quality: People like to ascribe human feelings to animals.

ascribe verb

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