mistaked
mistaked is the simple past of mistake.
Meaning of mistake
Verb
mistake (third-person singular simple present mistakes, present participle mistaking, simple past mistook, past participle mistaken)
- To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- Sorry, I mistook you for my brother. You look very similar.
- To misunderstand (someone).
- Miſtake me not, my Lord, ’tis not my meaning / To raze one Title of your Honour out.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
- To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
- Impoſe me to what penance your inuention / Can lay vpon my ſinne, yet ſinn’d I not / But in miſtaking.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To take or choose wrongly.
- The better act of purposes mistook / Is to mistake again; though indirect, / Yet indirection thereby grows direct,c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
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