guilt
US: /ˈɡɪɫt/
UK: /ɡˈɪlt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
guilt- danh từ
- điều sai quấy, tội lỗi
- sự phạm tội, sự có tội
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun [U]1 ~ (about sth) the unhappy feelings caused by knowing or thinking that you have done sth wrong: She had feelings of guilt about leaving her children and going to work. + Many survivors were left with a sense of guilt. + a guilt complex (= an exaggerated sense of guilt)
2 the fact that sb has done sth illegal: His guilt was proved beyond all doubt by the prosecution. + an admission of guilt
Antonym: INNOCENCE
3 blame or responsibility for doing sth wrong or for sth bad that has happened: The investigation will try to find out where the guilt for the disaster really lies.
guiltless adjective
Idioms: a guilt trip (informal) things you say to sb in order to make them feel guilty about sth: Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 culpability, guiltiness, criminality, blame, responsibility, blameworthiness; crime, sinfulness, feloniousness, wrongdoing, misconduct:
Confronted by the evidence, Shillingworth admitted his guilt.
2 remorse, self-reproach, regret, sorrow, contrition, repentance, shame, contriteness, self-condemnation, bad conscience:
That feeling of guilt would plague me for the rest of my life.
Collocation
1 feeling
ADJ.
dreadful, terrible
QUANT.
pang, twinge
VERB + GUILT
be consumed with, be haunted by, be overwhelmed with, be racked with, feel, suffer
I knew that the next day I would be consumed with guilt. You needn't feel any guilt about me.
| assuage
Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
GUILT + VERB
sear sb, sweep over sb, wash over sb
Guilt swept over her.
GUILT + NOUN
complex | feelings
PREP.
~ about/at/over
He had no feelings of guilt over what he had done.
PHRASES
a burden of guilt
the burden of guilt that she carried with her
| a feeling/sense of guilt
2 fact of having broken a law/done sth wrong
VERB + GUILT
admit | establish, prove
It might be difficult to prove his guilt.
GUILT + VERB
lie
There is no doubt as to where the guilt lies.
PHRASES
an admission of guilt
I took his silence as an admission of guilt.
| proof of guilt
Concise dictionary
gɪltnoun
+the state of having committed an offense
+remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offence
