personate vs impute

personate and impute both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personate	No	No	Yes	No
impute	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, impute is a hypernym of personate; that is, impute is a word with a broader meaning than personate:

Other hypernyms of personate include ascribe, assign, attribute.

personate (verb)	impute (verb)
attribute human qualities to something	attribute or credit to
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions	attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source