[U] a situation in which you think wrongly that you recognize sb or have found the person you are looking for:
He was shot in what seems to have been a case of mistaken identity.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is mistaken identity a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mistaken identity is tagged as noun.
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