mistake
/mɪˈsteɪk/ verb A2- To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. · Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.· Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
He/she/it mistakes · Past mistook · Past participle mistaken · -ing form mistaking
Verb forms
- Base form
- mistake
- He/she/it
- mistakes
- Past
- mistook
- Past participle
- mistaken
- -ing form
- mistaking
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him.
A MOLE, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: “I am sure than I can see, Mother!” In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, “What is it?” The young Mole said, “It is a pebble.” His Mother exclaimed: “My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.”
Some of your people have committed the strangest mistake—they have just arrested Edmond Dantès, mate of my vessel.”
Morrel, addressing the magistrate, whom he evidently knew; “there is doubtless some mistake easily explained.”
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