Definitions for ascribe

ascribe as·cribe

Spelling: [uh-skrahyb]
IPA: /əˈskraɪb/

Ascribe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in ascribe (abceirs).

Definitions for ascribe

verb (used with object)

  1. to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute:
  2. to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic:

Origin of ascribe

1400-50; late Middle English Latin ascrībere, equivalent to a- a-5 + scrībere to scribe2; replacing Middle English ascri

Examples for ascribe

What drives the human impulse to ascribe divine meaning to tragic events?

All they have to do is attribute or ascribe as much income as possible to foreign subsidiaries.

To the contrary, they ascribe to the belief that more guns on campus, in the hands of the right people, will make them safer.

The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.

Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.

I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.

That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.

Different boycotters will ascribe different meanings to the same act.

Yet neither expressed any interest in the legend that so many people want to ascribe to the man.

To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched.

Word Value for ascribe
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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