Usually means: Feeling responsible for doing wrong.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. guilt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. guilt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guilt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guilt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guilt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guilt, guilt: Wordnik
  7. guilt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. guilt: Wiktionary
  9. guilt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. guilt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. guilt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. guilt: Dictionary.com
  13. guilt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. guilt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Guilt (American TV series), Guilt (BBC), Guilt (British TV series), Guilt (Mims album), Guilt (Nero song), Guilt (Revenge), Guilt (TV series), Guilt (album), Guilt (disambiguation), Guilt (emotion), Guilt (law), Guilt (movie), Guilt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Guilt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. guilt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. guilt: Rhymezone
  19. guilt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. guilt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. guilt: Free Dictionary
  22. guilt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. guilt: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. guilt: Legal dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guilt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. guilt: Medical dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GUILT: Acronym Finder
  3. guilt: Idioms

(Note: See guilting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Responsibility for wrongdoing.
noun:  (law) The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
noun:  Regret for having done wrong.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To commit offenses; act criminally.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.

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