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mistaking
Variant of mistake
transitive verb mistook, mistaken or Obsoletemistook, mistaking
- to understand or perceive wrongly; interpret or judge incorrectly: mistake someone's motives
- to take (someone or something) to be another; recognize or identify incorrectly: to mistake one twin for the other
intransitive verb
to make a mistake
noun
- a fault in understanding, perception, interpretation, etc.
- an idea, answer, act, etc. that is wrong; error
Related Forms:
- mistakable adjective
- mistakably adverb
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