guilted
SayGIL-tid/ˈɡɪltɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of guilt.
The fundraising ad guilted viewers into pulling out their wallets.
He had guilted his coworkers into covering his shifts more than once.
Note
In present-day use this is almost always the informal, transitive verb: someone is guilted, usually into doing something. One regular form does both jobs, the past (she guilted him) and the participle after have or be (he had guilted them; they were guilted into helping). The verb guilt also once had an obsolete intransitive sense, meaning to commit offenses, but that use has died out.
guilted is a form of guilt
guilt, verb: To make someone feel guilty, especially as a way to influence what they do. Full entry
- Spelling
- guilt → guilted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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