mistook

noun

An error.

(baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

verb

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

(intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.

(transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).

(obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

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