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mistook
[mi-stook]
mistook
/ ɪˈʊ /
verb
the past tense of mistake
Example Sentences
Mr Perks, a consultant plastic surgeon who had recently retired, was woken by the break-in and initially mistook the defendant for his son, before Brooks stabbed him in the abdomen.
The restaurant initially mistook Paul for his identical twin "coming back for seconds" and denied him any food.
"We will make mistakes," he said in February, after his department mistook a region of Mozambique for Hamas-controlled Gaza while cutting an aid programme.
One is serving a seven-year sentence, in part for a July 2023 shooting in which he mistook the victim for Kemp.
It was “completely plausible” that the defendants mistook Jacobs and his friend for rivals “given the color of the cap in question,” the judge said.
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