Another word for mistook

Apparently he mistook her breathless state as an indication of passion.

In the middle of the queen's throne was a low stone box she mistook at first glance to be the world's most uncomfortable lumbar support.

Being discovered he was torn to pieces by Agave and others, who mistook him for some wild beast.

We left the compound and got ambushed by people we mistook for refugees.

When it is added that Jefferson's assertions, alike as regards Hamilton's talk 3 and the intent and tendency of his political measures, were, to the extent of the underlying basic fact - but discounting Jefferson's somewhat intemperate interpretations - unquestionably true, 4 it cannot be accounted strange that Hamilton's Democratic opponents mistook his theoretic predilections for positive designs.