mistook
the simple past tense of mistake.
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How to use mistook in a sentence
The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats.
Pistorius maintains that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder.
She mistook him for a servant and fed him kindly; later, she found out that the man was a top advisor to a major general.
Perhaps among other things, Smith mistook kindness as a sign of as weak case.
Free Demaryius Thomas’s Mom After 14 Years on a Drug Charge | Michael Daly | January 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis made headlines due to the posters Emin put up in her London neighborhood, an act people mistook as an original work of art.
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Melodye or glee; here Koch remarks that Chaucer 'evidently mistook tirelire for turelure.'
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerA scene like this must have been rare even to the priest of God; for he mistook this sad woman for one drunken with wine.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. ByrumThe story goes that one night during the carnival he was wounded by some masqueraders, who mistook him for another person.
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) OmondWhen the sun rose, all on board beheld one of the Ba-hamas, which Columbus mistook for an island off the coast of Asia.
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies | H. A. (Hlne Adeline) GuerberBut she realized her husband's horror and mistook it for disgust.
The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon | Newell Dwight Hillis
British Dictionary definitions for mistook
/ (mɪˈstʊk) /
the past tense of mistake
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