to ascribe
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6.8
- verb
- /əˈskraɪb/
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atribuir a
- Researchers ascribe the recent decline in wildlife populations to habitat loss.
- ascribe importance to
- ascribe meaning to
- ascribe a role to
Freud took this idea way too far, ascribing deep meaning to everything.
- Freud took this idea way too far, ascribing deep meaning to everything.
- And to that name we ascribe the whole lot good and evil.
- And instead prolong the period where they they naturally don't care and don't ascribe meaning to those differences.
- There's nothing in your life putting any pressure on these bookends that you have ascribed value to.
- So it's not what happens, it's the meaning we ascribe to it.
- OK, So this means that that potential is a real quality that you can ascribe to an object.
- The next aphorism, the very next page, was basically an argument against ascribing meaning to synchronicities.
- Freak, beast, animal, all these kinds of terms that we don't even think twice about ascribing to male athletes.
- Is, is that ascribing the morality to the person and then trying to look past that?
- One thing that I I do always want to be careful of is when we ascribe malice to people's actions.
- You would wear it in like religious ceremonies to sort of reflect back, you know, the traits that you ascribe to your gods, that sort of thing.
- It's all about your relationship with rejection and what that means and the meaning you ascribe to that.
- You know, they'll, some people will ascribe the worst intentions to what I do or what I'm saying.
- She spoke of women who'd been held back, pushed aside, shoved down, beaten up for reasons that were ascribed to tradition and culture.
- There were certain myths that people ascribe to that that set the boundaries.
- This may ascribe to Fischer's idea of lust, right?
- So you don't ascribe Steve Jobs demise to something.
- And they and they, they and they, you know, ascribe to Marxism Venus.
Examples
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- So, Miss Ellroy, viewers are dying to know, to what do you ascribe your meteoric rise in the film world?
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To his credit, he did not ascribe all African accomplishments to the Western presence.
Academic text (1991) -
And it's easy to kind of ascribe your own meaning to it.
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OK, So this means that that potential is a real quality that you can ascribe to an object.
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The power we ascribe to it, it's based on damage.
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The problems of the poor can always be ascribed to either the environment or personal factors.
Academic text (1991) -
Anna developed itchy skin, which their doctor ascribed to a lack of proper sleep.
Fiction book (1996) -
Whatever callow motives I ascribed to you, I came to believe that you were right.
Fiction book (1992) -
Caleb suspected that his own failure in life could be ascribed to his inexperience.
Fiction book (1996) -
The teacher would often ascribe great importance to homework assignments.
Synonyms
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3.8
To say that something comes from a person or thing
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3.2
Say that a person or cause made something
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8.7
To blame a person or thing for something bad, often without proof
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4.8
To say that something happened because of a particular reason
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ascribe comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and scribere 'to write', and it shares the same root as scribe and script. Think of writing someone's name on an object to show who made it, so to ascribe something is to say it comes from or is caused by a particular person or source.