guilt

culpabilité

Responsabilité d’avoir mal agi, ou sentiment pénible éprouvé lorsqu’on pense avoir fait quelque chose de mal.

En anglais simple : Responsibility for doing something wrong, or the unhappy feeling that you have done something wrong.

• She felt guilt after telling the lie.
• The evidence proved his guilt.
• He admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness.

Comment l'utiliser : guilt about something (She felt guilt about leaving her family.); guilt over something (His guilt over the accident kept him awake.)

Synonymes : culpability, remorse

Contraires : innocence

Expressions courantes : feel guilt, prove someone's guilt, sense of guilt

culpabiliser

Faire sentir à quelqu’un qu’il a mal agi, souvent pour obtenir ce qu’on veut de lui.

En anglais simple : To make someone feel bad about their actions, often to make them do what you want.

• Don't guilt me about taking a break.
• Her parents guilted her into visiting every weekend.
• He tried to guilt us into staying longer.

Comment l'utiliser : guilt someone into doing something (He guilted me into helping him move.); guilt someone about something (She guilted him about missing dinner.)

Synonymes : guilt-trip

Expressions courantes : guilt someone into, guilt someone about