ascribed

/əˈskraɪbd/

verb

  1. Past tense and past participle of “ascribe”: to say that someone or something is responsible for, or has, a particular quality, result, or event.

    B2

    ascribe something to someone or something

    • "She ascribed her success to hard work."B1
    • "The report ascribed the decline in sales to rising prices."B2
    • "His unusual behavior was ascribed to the psychological pressure of the job."C1

Common mistakes

  • He was ascribed the success.→The success was ascribed to him.

    Use “ascribe something to someone,” not usually “ascribe someone something.”

  • ascribe→ascribed

    Use the past tense “ascribed” when referring to a past action.

Collocations

ascribed toascribed to hard workascribed to luckascribed to human errorascribed to climate changeascribed characteristicascribed value

Word family

ascribeascriptionattribution