Meaning & use
Mistook
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Wrongly identified or understood someone or something; the past tense of "mistake."
See it in a sentence
I mistook him for his twin brother at the party.
She mistook his silence for anger, when he was actually just tired.
A note on using this word
Commonly follows the pattern "mistook X for Y," meaning one thing was wrongly taken to be another.
Words with a similar meaning
misidentifiedmisjudged
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Words with an opposite meaning
recognizedidentified
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