1. attributing or ascribing something, especially blame or responsibility, to someone or something
Usage: present participle of ‘impute’
2. assigning a value or characteristic to something based on inference or assumption
Usage: often used in statistics and data analysis

Examples

• The detective was imputing the crime to the wrong suspect.
• She kept imputing malicious motives to his innocent comments.
• The researcher is imputing missing data values using statistical methods.
• Stop imputing blame to others for your own mistakes.
• The software is imputing the missing information automatically.
• He was imputing supernatural powers to the ancient artifact.