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mistook

[mi-stook]

verb

  1. the simple past tense of mistake.



mistook

/ ɪˈʊ /

verb

  1. the past tense of mistake

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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.

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The restaurant initially mistook Paul for his identical twin "coming back for seconds" and denied him any food.

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"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.

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One is serving a seven-year sentence, in part for a July 2023 shooting in which he mistook the victim for Kemp.

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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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