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guilt trip

n. Informal

A usually prolonged feeling of guilt or culpability.

Idiom:

lay a guilt trip on

To make or try to make (someone) feel guilty.

Thesaurus

Noun

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guilt trip - remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense guilt feelings, guilty conscience, guilt compunction, remorse, self-reproach - a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) survivor guilt - a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died; "survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust"