Failed
Mistook
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- He initially mistook it for food, but even finding out that it was not, failed to stop him from eating it at every opportunity.
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Mr Burns once mistook a candy vending machine for a working candy store, and when it failed to respond to his verbal request for a snack, he gave it a Death Glare and said it had made a powerful enemy.
Source: Enmity with an Object -
During Swartt Sixclaw's failed attempt at taking over Redwall in Outcast of Redwall, a rat captain named Scraw gets shot full of arrows after Swartt's archers mistook him for woodlanders hiding in the bushes.
Source: Literature / Redwall
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