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