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ascribeas‧cribe /əˈskraɪb/ verb ascribeOrigin: 1400-1500 Old French ascrivre, from Latin ascribere, from ad- ‘to’ + scribere ‘to write’ VERB TABLEascribe |
Present | I, you, we, they | ascribe | | he, she, it | ascribes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | ascribed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have ascribed | | he, she, it | has ascribed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had ascribed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will ascribe | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have ascribed |
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Present | I | am ascribing | | he, she, it | is ascribing | | you, we, they | are ascribing | Past | I, he, she, it | was ascribing | | you, we, they | were ascribing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been ascribing | | he, she, it | has been ascribing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been ascribing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be ascribing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been ascribing |
- But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.
- Sammler mastered and dismissed this suspicion, ascribing it to surprise and nervousness.
- Similarly, her consideration of wearing a crucifix as jewellery was linked to assumptions that individuals might ascribe to the wearer.
- There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other.
- This effort to ascribe blame makes no sense, because the dip was too small to matter.
- We could ascribe these setbacks to the fact that our regime is young, or make other excuses.
- We may be quite right to ascribe agency to a child for his acts.
ascribe something to somebody/something phrasal verb written1to claim that something is caused by a particular person, situation etc: The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.2to claim that something has been written, said, made etc by a particular person: a quotation that’s often been ascribed to Marilyn Monroe3to believe that something or someone has a particular quality: Local people ascribe healing properties to this fruit.—ascribable adjective: Most of the accidents were ascribable to the bad weather. |