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ALL meanings of guilt

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  • noun guilt the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt. 1
  • noun guilt a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined. 1
  • noun guilt conduct involving the commission of such crimes, wrongs, etc.: to live a life of guilt. 1
  • verb with object guilt to cause to feel guilty (often followed by out or into): She totally guilted me out, dude. He guilted me into picking up the tab. See also guilt-trip. 1
  • noun guilt The fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime. 1
  • noun guilt of conscience 1
  • noun guilt for crime 1
  • noun guilt responsibility 1
  • noun guilt Responsibility for wrongdoing. 0
  • noun guilt Awareness of having done wrong. 0
  • noun guilt The fact of having done wrong. 0
  • noun guilt (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings. 0
  • verb guilt (Intransitive Verb) OBS To commit offenses; act criminally. 0
  • verb guilt (Transitive Verb) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour. 0
  • uncountable noun guilt Guilt is an unhappy feeling that you have because you have done something wrong or think that you have done something wrong. 0
  • uncountable noun guilt Guilt is the fact that you have done something wrong or illegal. 0
  • noun guilt the fact or state of having done wrong or committed an offence 0
  • noun guilt responsibility for a criminal or moral offence deserving punishment or a penalty 0
  • noun guilt remorse or self-reproach caused by feeling that one is responsible for a wrong or offence 0
  • noun guilt sin or crime 0
  • noun guilt the state of having done a wrong or committed an offense; culpability, legal or ethical 0
  • noun guilt a painful feeling of self-reproach resulting from a belief that one has done something wrong or immoral 0
  • noun guilt conduct that involves guilt; crime; sin 0
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