Mistook

Word MISTOOK
Character 7
Hyphenation mis took
Pronunciations /mɪsˈtʊk/

Definitions and meanings of "Mistook"

What do we mean by mistook?

Imp. & obs. p. p. of mistake.

Simple past of mistake. verb

To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

To misunderstand (someone).

To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.

To take or choose wrongly.

When you think one object for something very similar to it. Urban Dictionary

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The word "mistook" in example sentences

III. ii.24 (321,5) yet had he mistook him, and sent him to me] [W: mislook'd] I rather read, _yet had he_ not _mistook him, and sent to me_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Like the inventors of the Backstreet Boys, pet rocks and the Macarena dance, Sarah Palin mistook fame for actual talent and durability. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Late last year, Palin mistook Iraq for Iran when she suggested that the U.S. has to crack down on Iraq to prevent nuclear war in Iran. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's nothing this side of deplorable that Chaim Levine -- yeah that's his real name mistook this rock star for his exit strategy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ms. Deng got in a quarrel with Huang Dezhi when he "mistook" her for a bathhouse attendant and asked her for "cross gender" services, according to a police report. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How gullible can this jury be to collectively accept that this gun-happy moron "mistook" his weapon for the taser that he carries on the opposite side of his body? ❋ Unknown (2010)

A hunter "mistook" her for, you guessed it, a deer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No one ever mistook a paparazzo for an Olympic gymnast. ❋ Todd Strasser (2011)

Last autumn he visited the emergency room after accidentally clipping his finger in a hedge trimmer, which seemed quite dire relative to the wheezing infant of freaked-out first-time parents, an elderly woman who gargled citronella torch fuel she mistook for mouthwash, and a teenager too stoned to notice or mind that his right foot pointed back instead of front, the result of a Jackass copycat stunt gone bad. ❋ Scott Gummer (2011)

"Tina you [mistook your jam for jelly] when you grabbed me [limes] instead of [lemons]." ❋ Editor Man (2008)

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