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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mistook
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An old woman who was lying on her side mistook me for a doctor, and called me to sit by her.
▪ At first he mistook her yells for laughter.
▪ But he escaped last night, and mistook Gay for some one else.
▪ For it mistook Darren and Michelle Fryer for a giant heating boiler.
▪ He was a very private man and some mistook this for aloofness.
▪ One night she heard an ambulance approach the hospital and mistook it for a fire engine.
▪ Thus, falling into the technocrats' natural sin, it mistook administrative device for organic substance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistook

Mistake \Mis*take"\ (m[i^]s*t[=a]k"), v. t. [imp. & obs. p. p. Mistook (m[i^]s*t[oo^]k"); p. p. Mistaken (m[i^]s*t[=a]k"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Mistaking.] [Pref. mis- + take: cf. Icel. mistaka.]

  1. To take or choose wrongly. [Obs. or R.]
    --Shak.

  2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning.
    --Locke.

    My father's purposes have been mistook.
    --Shak.

  3. To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another.

    A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.
    --Johnson.

  4. To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge.

    Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous.
    --Shak.

Mistook

Mistook \Mis*took"\, imp. & obs. p. p. of Mistake.

Wiktionary
mistook

vb. (en-simple past of: mistake)

WordNet
mistake

  1. n. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: error, fault]

  2. an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister" [syn: misunderstanding, misapprehension]

  3. part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors" [syn: error]

  4. [also: mistook, mistaken]

mistake

  1. v. identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister" [syn: misidentify]

  2. to make a mistake or be incorrect [syn: err, slip]

  3. [also: mistook, mistaken]

mistook

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Usage examples of "mistook".

Ursula with 11,000 noble, and 60,000 plebeian, virgins, mistook their way.

How could I tell her, now, that she mistook my measure and circumstances?

The enormous backlog of similar incidents, manfully swallowed or overlooked for any number of logical reasons, swept aside every consideration except to put as much distance between himself and his invidious position, his too reasonable and conscientious guardian and the obnoxious group of people who mistook daily intimacy for license.

He—he mistook it for a copy of the illumination which I was bringing as a gift.

One of them once mistook me for a distant relative of mine—name of Leibowitz.

They thought he mistook it for water, so they laughed and gave him a cup.

One of them once mistook me for a distant relative of mine–name of Leibowitz.

He–he mistook it for a copy of the illumination which I was bringing as a gift.

Cole flew up there—though Sudacar could not say how—but he looked so fierce when he arrived that Bette mistook him for one of Yawataht's minions and smacked him on the head with a hammer.

Remember, later that evening, when he mistook my partner for you, he said, 'you've escaped, and now you try to steal what you have not earned.

I thought this crystal might have had something to do with it, since, when he mistook Jade for you and killed her, Flattery accused her of trying to steal what she had not earned.