mistake

  1. Noun.  An error; a blunder.
  2. Noun.  (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.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To make an error, to do something in a wrong way.

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