guilt

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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
guilt n (of conscience)culpa nf
  remordimiento nm
 Hillary felt a lot of guilt over the way she talked to her mother.
 Hilary sintió un montón de culpa por la forma en la que le habló a su madre.
guilt n (for crime)culpabilidad nf
 The defendant's guilt was obvious.
 La culpabilidad del acusado era evidente.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
guilt n (responsibility)culpa nf
  responsabilidad nf
 The guilt lies with the person who started this whole thing.
 La culpa recae sobre la persona que empezó todo esto.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
admission of guilt n (law: oral or written confession)admisión de culpabilidad loc nom f
  reconocimiento de culpabilidad loc nom m
admit guilt v expr (confess to [sth])confesar⇒ vtr
 Smith admitted guilt for his role in the robbery.
guilt trip n informal (feeling of shame or responsibility)culpa nf
 After she had such a bad experience, I went on quite a guilt trip for having persuaded her to do it in the first place.
 Después de que ella tuvo una experiencia tan mala, sentí culpa por haberla convencido de hacerlo en primer lugar.
guilt trip n informal (attempt to make [sb] feel guilty)chantaje emocional loc nom m
  intento de hacer que alguien se sienta culpable nm + loc adj
guilt trip [sb],
guilt-trip v expr		 informal (attempt to make [sb] feel guilty)hacer sentir culpable a loc verb
 He tried to guilt-trip me by saying that it was my fault that he was late for work.
guilt-ridden,
guilt ridden adj		 (feeling very guilty)culposo adj
Note: A hyphen is used when the adjective precedes the noun.
survivor guilt n (psychiatry)síndrome del superviviente loc nom m
  síndrome de supervivencia loc nom m
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'guilt' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
absolve - accusative - admission - blame - clean hands - cleanse - cleansing - clear - confess - confession - conscience - conscience money - cover up - damning evidence - dirty hands - guilty - incriminating - incriminating admission - incriminating statement - incriminatory - innocence - innocently - make a confession without duress - nolo contendere - peg - pile on - plead guilty - presumption of innocence - remorsefulness - remorseless - scrupulosity - self-incrimination - smoking gun - squirm - trial jury - under a cloud of suspicion - weigh on your conscience - with a clear conscience
Spanish:
culpa - culpabilidad - muerto - compunción - sentimiento de culpa

Collocations: sent him on a guilt trip [over, about], guilt-free [dessert, dining], am still in the guilt phase, more...

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