ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsAascribe
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ascribe
Meaning: to attribute something to a particular cause, source, or person
ascribe in a sentence
How ascribe is used in real sentences:
Historians ascribe the settlement's decline to years of severe drought.
The coach refused to ascribe the victory to luck, citing months of disciplined practice.
“Venn did not ascribe this mismatch entirely to deliberate lying; people also revise their memories to preserve a decent image of themselves.”
— from the passage Answers Behind a Screen
Synonyms for ascribe
Other words for ascribe — attribute, impute and assign — carry the same meaning.
- attribute
- impute
- assign
Antonyms of ascribe
Words that mean the opposite of ascribe:
- dissociate
- disconnect
- separate
Where it comes from
From Latin ascribere, meaning 'to add in writing or attribute.'
Memory hook
ASCRIBE sounds like 'assign by a scribe': ascribe something by assigning it to a source.