1. To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause.
2. To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong. SYN. ascribe, attribute, impute.
3. Attribute or assign to a cause or source.

ETYM Latin repatriare. Related to Repair.
1. To admit back into the country.
2. To send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees.