Assign
Assign verb - Attribute or give.
Put
Put verb - Attribute or give.
Usage example: He put all his efforts into this job
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His parents put two and two together, so they made Peter assign punishments as a Batman Gambit to get him to confess himself.
Source: Unishment - Cool and Unusual Punishment: One of Marsh's first acts upon being put back in charge of the four National Servicemen at RAF Druidswater in Series 5 is to assign them to morgue detail.
Source: Series / Get Some In! - Synopsis: Captain Arthur Pendragon has put together the best team of specialists that the SAS has ever seen, but when his superiors assign Lieutenant Merlin Emrys as his communications officer, Arthur does everything to make him feel unwelcome.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Merlin (2008)
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