guilt
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡɪlt/
guilt (uncountable)
- Responsibility for wrongdoing.
- Antonyms: innocence
- (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
- Antonyms: innocence
- The regret of having done wrong.
- Synonyms: remorse
- French: culpabilité
- German: Schuld
- Italian: colpa
- Portuguese: culpa
- Russian: вина́
- Spanish: culpa
- French: culpabilité
- Italian: colpevolezza
- Portuguese: culpa
- Russian: вина́
- Spanish: culpabilidad
- French: sentiment de culpabilité
- German: Schuldgefühl
- Italian: senso di colpa
- Portuguese: culpa
- Russian: вина́
- Spanish: culpa, remordimiento
guilt (guilts, present participle guilting; past and past participle guilted)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
- (transitive) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
- He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.
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