noun
1 feeling
ADJECTIVE
▪ intense , overwhelming , terrible , tremendous
▪ lingering
▪ sexual
▪ Catholic , Jewish , etc.
▪ liberal , middle-class ( esp. BrE ), white ( all disapproving )
▪
These actions are merely intended to assuage white liberal ~.
▪ collective , personal
▪
They feel a sense of collective ~ for the Holocaust.
▪ survivor
… OF GUILT
▪ pang , twinge
VERB + GUILT
▪ bear , carry
▪
It helped him bear the ~ he felt.
▪ be consumed with , be driven by , be haunted by , be overwhelmed with , be racked with , experience , feel , suffer
▪
I knew that the next day I would be consumed with ~.
▪
You needn't feel any ~ about me.
▪ alleviate , assuage , ease
▪
Talking to her helped to assuage my ~.
GUILT + VERB
▪ overwhelm sb , wash over sb
▪ consume sb , weigh down on sb , weigh on sb
GUILT + NOUN
▪ complex
▪ feelings
▪ trip (= things you say in order to make sb feel guilty about sth)
▪
She was trying to lay a ~ trip on me.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about , ~ at , ~ over
▪
He had no feelings of ~ over what he had done.
PHRASES
▪ a burden of ~
▪
the burden of ~ that she carried with her
▪ a feeling of ~ , a sense of ~
2 fact of having broken a law/done sth wrong
VERB + GUILT
▪ admit , confess
▪ deny
▪
Many of the accused would deny their ~ to the magistrates.
▪ determine , establish , prove
▪
It might be difficult to prove his ~.
GUILT + VERB
▪ lie
▪
There is no doubt as to where the ~ lies.
PHRASES
▪ an admission of ~
▪
I took his silence as an admission of ~.
▪ proof of ~