Mistake+for

  • 21mistake someone for — mistake (someone/something) for (someone/something) to think that a person or thing is really someone or something else. The prison buildings could almost be mistaken for a college campus …

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  • 22mistake something for someone — mistake (someone/something) for (someone/something) to think that a person or thing is really someone or something else. The prison buildings could almost be mistaken for a college campus …

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  • 23mistake something for something — mistake (someone/something) for (someone/something) to think that a person or thing is really someone or something else. The prison buildings could almost be mistaken for a college campus …

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  • 24mistake something for — mistake (someone/something) for (someone/something) to think that a person or thing is really someone or something else. The prison buildings could almost be mistaken for a college campus …

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  • 25mistake — [n] error, misunderstanding aberration, blooper*, blunder, boo boo*, bungle, confusion, delusion, erratum, false move, false step, fault, faux pas, flub*, fluff*, gaffe, illusion, inaccuracy, inadvertence, lapse, misapplication, misapprehension,… …

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  • 26mistake one for — mistake someone for someone else, wrongly identify someone …

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  • 27for|giv´er — for|give «fuhr GIHV», verb, gave, giv|en, giv|ing. –v.t. 1. to give up the wish to punish or get even with; not have hard feelings at or toward; pardon; excuse: »She forgave her brother for breaking her doll. Please forgive my mistake. SYNONYM(S) …

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  • 28for|give — «fuhr GIHV», verb, gave, giv|en, giv|ing. –v.t. 1. to give up the wish to punish or get even with; not have hard feelings at or toward; pardon; excuse: »She forgave her brother for breaking her doll. Please forgive my mistake. SYNONYM(S) …

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  • 29for practical purposes — for (all) practical purposes used to say that one thing has the same effect or result as something else His effort to hide the document was, for practical purposes [=in effect], an admission that he had made a mistake. During the blizzard, the… …

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  • 30for|gave — «fuhr GAYV», verb. past tense of forgive: »She forgave my mistake …

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