ascribe something to somebody/something phrasal verb written (see also ascribe)

1. 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.

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

3. to 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.

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