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guilt


guilt

I. guilt1 /ɡɪlt/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
[Word Family: noun: guilt, guiltiness; adjective: guilty, guilt-ridden; adverb: guiltily]
[Language : Old English; Origin : gylt]
1. a strong feeling of shame and sadness because you know that you have done something wrong:
  ▪ He used to buy them expensive presents, out of guilt.
guilt about/at/over
  ▪ Don’t you have any feelings of guilt about leaving David?
  ▪ He felt an enormous sense of guilt when he thought about how he’d treated her.
  ▪ I was racked with guilt at my part in making her this unhappy.
  ▪ Sometimes I felt little pangs of guilt.

2. the fact that you have broken an official law or moral rule OPP innocence:
  ▪ He did not deny his guilt.

3. responsibility and blame for something bad that has happened
guilt for
  ▪ Guilt for poorly behaved children usually lies with the parents.

4. be on a guilt trip
informal to have a feeling of guilt about something when it is unreasonable

5. lay a guilt trip on somebody
American English informal to make someone feel bad about something:
  ▪ I wish my parents would stop laying a guilt trip on me for not going to college.
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
have guilt
  ▪ I had a lot of guilt about what had happened.
feel guilt
  ▪ She didn’t feel any guilt; she had done nothing wrong.
be consumed with/racked with/overwhelmed by guilt (=feel very guilty)
  ▪ Later he was horrified that he had hit her, and was racked by guilt.
assuage sb’s guilt formal (=make someone feel less guilty)
  ▪ She died before I got there, and there was nothing I could do to assuage my guilt and regret.
phrases
a feeling/sense of guilt (also guilt feelings)
  ▪ I had a permanent feeling of guilt that I didn't see Mum and Dad as often as I should.
a pang/twinge/stab of guilt
  ▪ Richard felt a pang of guilt, knowing that he had forgotten her birthday.
a burden of guilt (=a strong feeling of guilt)
  ▪ Many children feel a burden of guilt when their parents divorce, believing that they have caused the separation.
guilt + NOUN
a guilt complex (=when you cannot stop feeling guilty, although it is unnecessary)
  ▪ Some of the survivors developed a guilt complex. Why had they lived when others had died?
adjectives
collective guilt (=guilt shared by each member of a group or society)
  ▪ Should we feel some kind of collective guilt for what happened in the past?
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THESAURUS
guilt the feeling you have when you have done something you know is wrong :
  ▪ Divorce often leaves people with feelings of guilt.
shame the feeling of being guilty or embarrassed that you have after doing something that is wrong, when you feel you have lost people’s respect :
  ▪ I was too scared to help him, and I was filled with shame.
regret a feeling of sadness about something, especially because you wish it had not happened :
  ▪ Kate watched her go with a pang of regret.
remorse a strong feeling of being sorry for doing something very bad :
  ▪ a murderer who showed no remorse
contrition formal a feeling of being guilty and sorry for something wrong that you have done :
  ▪ The company CEO expressed contrition for the errors that led to the crash.
  ▪ He sounded full of contrition.
  ▪ They wanted to perform some kind of act of contrition (=do something that shows you feel sorry for something ).
penitence formal a feeling of being sorry for something that you have done wrong, when you do not intend to do it again :
  ▪ He expressed genuine penitence at the harm he had done her.
  ▪ a period of reflection and penitence
conscience the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is morally right or wrong :
  ▪ My conscience has been troubling me ever since.

II. guilt2 verb
guilt somebody into something phrasal verb American English informal
to make someone feel guilty, so they will do what you want
guilt somebody into doing something
  ▪ Her parents guilted her into not going to the concert.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of relief/panic/guilt etc
We reached the medical centre with a sense of relief.
admission of guilt/defeat/failure etc
Silence is often interpreted as an admission of guilt.
assuage...guilt
Nothing could assuage his guilt.
pang of jealousy/guilt/remorse/regret
She felt a sudden pang of guilt.
prove sb's guilt/innocence
There was no way she could prove her innocence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
complex
Right and wrong must be standardised, or there will always be people who have the burden of guilt complexes.
trip
No do-goody laying on a guilt trip.
VERB
admit
Linkworth refused to admit his guilt.
Legal experts predict that McVeigh is unlikely to get a new trial because he has admitted guilt.
Last week, Lee admitted his guilt on a single felony count.
Gingrich agreed to the penalty Dec. 20 as part of a deal in which he admitted guilt.
If she admitted it, guilt had played a part in her grief.
All six defendants agreed to settle the allegations without admitting or denying guilt.
If the evil characters are not punished per se they admit their guilt and often beg forgiveness.
The princess was let free on six months' unsupervised probation and admitted no guilt.
assuage
Above all, affirmative action assuages white guilt.
Ill health removed the pleasures of dissipation for him, and there was nothing to assuage his guilt and regret.
Or assuage the guilt for abandoning that traditional ideal.
This itself suggests that such findings assuage some sense of guilt.
establish
Either somebody set the Collingridges up, or the Prime Minister of this country has established his guilt by falsifying evidence.
Mr. Pollard says a complete overhaul of the system is needed, to establish guilt and innocence and find the truth.
Without forcing him to account for the funds, it will be hard to establish any guilt.
feel
Strangely, I felt no guilt about Menzies's plight.
He felt some guilt at first, which bothered him, but he also found satisfaction in it.
As the recent months had passed, and as Louise had sickened, he felt the guilt more frequently.
The only negative feeling was a guilt for being able to do this.
At the same time, she felt a creeping guilt about Matthew.
Sometimes parents feel some embarrassment and guilt toward defiant or stubborn aspects of themselves.
She wouldn't feel one twitch of guilt if it wasn't for Miss Phoebe.
He felt no sense of guilt in the betrayal of personal confidence.
prove
The temptation is to concentrate on trying to find some way of proving Fred's guilt or innocence.
It means only that prosecutors failed to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, he said.
Most laws against corporate criminal behaviour require that intention be proved before guilt can be established.
He said there were times when the bureau pressured him to prove guilt in some cases rather than just test evidence.
No actual objects that could prove guilt.
rack
If Liza had been racked by guilt, now, in a way, so was she.
Among them was Carmen Azzopardi, who had been racked with guilt after turning down a request from Bernadette to mind Farrah.
I did some bad stuff to some people to prove myself, but I was racked with guilt.
suffer
Men too suffer the pangs of guilt - although they have not yet become as expert as women.
The killers of that race had never suffered from their guilt and sought to be made clean.
Therefore two suffer for the guilt of one.
Although the baby-swop case was tragic, I bet the staff involved will suffer guilt for the rest of their lives.
They suffered years of guilt and dissimulation before they could announce their own agnosticism or adamant disbelief.
Some observers said Jones would be likely to suffer from guilt by association and the tarnishing of her golden girl image.
Babies are not born suffering from chronic guilt, anger of any other of the destructive emotions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in sb's vocabulary
a twinge of guilt/envy/sadness/jealousy etc
Carew felt a twinge of envy.
Romanov felt a twinge of envy at the thought that he could never hope to live in such style.
Thrilled by the beauty of the scene, she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.
dart of guilt/panic/pain etc
She held her breath on another quick dart of guilt.
The words echoed unspoken in her brain, sending tiny darts of pain through her veins.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Guilt can be a very destructive emotion.
Most of the guilt for his poor academic performance lies with him.
People often have feelings of guilt after a divorce.
The juror was sure of the defendant's guilt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Burrows makes me feel slightly less guilty, and the less guilt, the better-for me and the children.
From expectation, responsibility, guilt?
I hear his words but am too exhausted by guilt and remorse to answer.
Or had she cut her wrists in a paroxysm of guilt?
Poor little Sophie would by now be suffering pangs of guilt for her behaviour towards me.
The guilt that deprived her of her solitary pleasures had not been helpful to her children.
Wanda Kaczynski is plagued by guilt.


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