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# guilt

«guilt» in Mova's school dictionary: **The bad, uncomfortable feeling you have when you know you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (guilt — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The bad, uncomfortable feeling you have when you know you have done something wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#m1)

2) The fact of having done something wrong or broken a law (the court proved his guilt). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In feelings lessons, guilt is a normal emotion that tells us to put things right: say sorry, fix a mistake. Too much guilt about things that were not your fault is not helpful — talk to someone. In stories guilt changes characters (they confess or make amends). In law and mystery stories, the detective proves someone's guilt. Phrases: feel guilt, a sense of guilt, guilty (adjective), guilt trip, guilty conscience.

### examples

- He felt guilt after he broke his sister's toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x1)
- Saying sorry helped her guilt go away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x2)
- The detective found proof of the thief's guilt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x3)
- Don't carry guilt for something that wasn't your fault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x4)
- I felt guilty because I forgot her birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x5)
- The dog's guilty face showed it had eaten the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/#x6)

### note

Homophone trap: «guilt» (feeling of doing wrong) and «gilt» (thin gold covering) sound the same. Adjective: guilty (I feel guilty). Opposite: innocence, innocent. Silent «u»: guilt.

### In the corpora

- [Guilt shows that you care, and saying sorry and being kind helps fix things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/10/)
- [Guilt shows you care; saying sorry and doing something kind helps you let it go.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud/14/)
- [Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/22/)
- [Confession can lift guilt, but it does not replace giving back what you took.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy/21/)
- [Confession can ease guilt about teasing, but the sorry to the person teased is still needed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «guilt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guilt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.