mistake
noun
an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
had been mistaking
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past perfect progressiveof mistake.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She had been mistaking him for a nice, ornamental, useless boy.
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
What we had been mistaking for fleeting glimpses of sky away aloft there, were really patches of the Blumis's snowy crest caught through shredded rents in the drifting pall of vapor.
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Mark Twain
