To take advantage of (someone); to treat (someone) with too much familiarity, take liberties with (someone or something)
To exploit (something), use freely, use to one's own advantage
To take (something) freely, help oneself to
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
An error; a blunder.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.