{
    "term": "guilt",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the unhappy feelings caused by knowing or thinking that you have done something wrong",
            "sensetop": "guilt (about something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She had feelings of guilt about leaving her children and going to work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many survivors were left with **a sense of guilt**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **guilt complex** *(= an exaggerated sense of )"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had no feelings of guilt over what he had done."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I knew that the next day I would be consumed with guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It helped him bear the guilt he felt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These actions are merely intended to assuage white liberal guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They feel a sense of collective guilt for the Holocaust."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You needn't feel any guilt about me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the burden of guilt that she carried with her"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's important to differentiate between a healthy conscience and a guilt complex."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["intense", "overwhelming", "terrible"],
                "… of guilt": ["pang", "twinge"],
                "verb + guilt": ["bear", "carry", "be consumed with"],
                "guilt + verb": [
                    "overwhelm somebody",
                    "wash over somebody",
                    "consume somebody"
                ],
                "guilt + noun": ["complex", "feelings", "trip"],
                "preposition": ["guilt about", "guilt at", "guilt over"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a burden of guilt",
                    "a feeling of guilt",
                    "a sense of guilt"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact that somebody has done something illegal",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His guilt was proved beyond all doubt by the prosecution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you think this statement amounts to an admission of guilt?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It might be difficult to prove his guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of the accused would deny their guilt to the magistrates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I took his silence as an admission of guilt."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + guilt": ["admit", "confess", "deny"],
                "guilt + verb": ["lie"],
                "phrases": ["an admission of guilt", "proof of guilt"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "blame or responsibility for doing something wrong or for something bad that has happened",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The investigation will try to find out where the guilt for the disaster really lies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no doubt as to where the guilt lies."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + guilt": ["admit", "confess", "deny"],
                "guilt + verb": ["lie"],
                "phrases": ["an admission of guilt", "proof of guilt"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "things you say to somebody in order to make them feel guilty about something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't **lay a guilt trip** on your child about schoolwork."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was trying to lay a guilt trip on me."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡɪlt/",
                "audio": "gu/guilt/guilt__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡɪlt/",
                "audio": "gu/guilt/guilt__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English gylt, of unknown origin."
}