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mistake
A	noun
	1	mistake, error, fault
				a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚nonaccomplishment; nonachievement ╚mistake, error, fault ╚ballup; balls-up; cockup; mess-up ╚blunder; blooper; bloomer; bungle; foul-up; fuckup; flub; botch; boner; boo-boo ╚omission; skip ╚oversight; lapse ╚slip; slip-up; miscue; parapraxis ╚distortion ╚miscalculation; misreckoning; misestimation ╚incursion ╚confusion; mix-up ╚blot; smear; smirch; spot; stain
	2	mistake, misunderstanding, misapprehension
				an understanding of something that is not correct; "he wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake about his intentions"; "there must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚idea; thought ╚misconception ╚mistake, misunderstanding, misapprehension
	3	error, mistake
				part of a statement that is not correct; "the book was full of errors"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚statement ╚misstatement ╚error, mistake ╚misprint; erratum; typographical error; typo; literal error; literal ╚corrigendum
B	verb
	1	err, mistake, slip
				to make a mistake or be incorrect

	2	mistake, misidentify
				identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister"
		Category Tree: remember; retrieve; recall; call back; call up; recollect; think ╚recognize; recognise ╚identify ╚mistake, misidentify ╚confuse; confound

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