assign

give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

give out or allot

• “We were assigned new uniforms”

attribute or credit to

• “We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”
• “People impute great cleverness to cats”

select something or someone for a specific purpose

• “The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise”

attribute or give

• “She put too much emphasis on her the last statement”
• “He put all his efforts into this job”
• “The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story”

make undue claims to having

transfer one''s right to

decide as to where something belongs in a scheme

• “The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class”