remorse

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• UK: rĭ-môrsʹ
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• UK: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/
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• US: rĭ-môrsʹ
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• US: /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/
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• CMU ARPABET: R IH0 M AO1 R S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First attested circa 14th century as Middle English remors, from Old French remors, from Medieval Latin remorsus, from Latin remordeō (“to torment, vex”, literally “to bite back”), from re- + mordeō (“to bite”). More at remord.

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نَدَم (nadam) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Arabic: وَخَز الضَّمِير (waḵaz aḍ-ḍamīr) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Armenian: զղջանք (zġǰankʻ) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Asturian: remordimientu — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Belarusian: му́кі сумле́ння (múki sumljénnja) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Belarusian: дако́ры сумле́ння (dakóry sumljénnja) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Belarusian: згрызо́ты сумле́ння (zhryzóty sumljénnja) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Belarusian: ка́янне (kájannje) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Bengali: অনুশোচনা (onuśōcona) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Bulgarian: угризе́ния на съвестта́ (ugrizénija na sǎvesttá) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Bulgarian: разка́яние (razkájanie) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Catalan: remordiment — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Chinese Mandarin: 悔恨 (huǐhèn) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Chinese Mandarin: 內疚 /内疚 (nèijiù) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Chinese Mandarin: 良心的呵責 /良心的呵责 (liángxīn de hēzé) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Czech: lítost — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Czech: výčitky svědomí — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Danish: skyldfølelse — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Danish: anger — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Danish: samvittighedsnag — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Dutch: berouw — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Dutch: gewetenswroeging — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Esperanto: memriproĉo — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Esperanto: rimorso — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Esperanto: pento — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Esperanto: bedaŭro — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Estonian: südametunnistusepiinad — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Finnish: katumus — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Finnish: tunnonvaiva — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Finnish: tunnontuska — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• French: remords — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• French: componction — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Galician: remordemento — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Galician: remorso — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Georgian: სინანული (sinanuli) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• German: Reue — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• German: Gewissensbisse — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Greek: τύψη (týpsi) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Greek: ενοχή (enochí) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Hungarian: bűntudat — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Hungarian: lelkifurdalás — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Hungarian: lelkiismeret-furdalás — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Interlingua: remorso — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Irish: doilíos — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Italian: rimorso — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Japanese: 良心の呵責 (ryōshin no kashaku) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Japanese: 悔悟 (kaigo) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Khmer: វិប្បដិសារី (vɨppaʼdesaarəy) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Korean: 죄의식 (joe'uisik) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Korean: 자책감 (jachaekgam) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Korean: 회오 (hoe'o) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Central Kurdish: پەشیمانی (peşîmanî) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Northern Kurdish: poşmanî — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Latin: cōnscientia — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Latvian: sirdsapziņas pārmetums — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Lithuanian: sąžinės priekaištai — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Macedonian: грижа на совеста (griža na sovesta) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Macedonian: каење (kaenje) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Malayalam: പശ്ചാത്താപം (paścāttāpaṁ) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Malayalam: കുറ്റബോധം (kuṟṟabōdhaṁ) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Māori: kaniawheatanga — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Māori: kaniawhea — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Middle English: remors — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Mongolian: гэмшил (gemšil) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Norwegian Bokmål: anger — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Norwegian Bokmål: samvittighetsnag — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Old English: hrēow — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Plautdietsch: Schultjefeel — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Polish: wyrzuty sumienia — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Polish: skrucha — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Portuguese: remorsos — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Portuguese: remordimento — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Romanian: remușcare — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Romanian: regret — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Russian: угрызе́ния со́вести (ugryzénija sóvesti) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Russian: раска́яние (raskájanije) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Russian: сожале́ние (sožalénije) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: грижа савести — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: грижа савјести — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: грижња савести — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: грижња савјести — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: griža savesti — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: griža savjesti — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: grižnja savesti — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Serbo-Croatian: grižnja savjesti — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Slovak: ľútosť — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Slovak: výčitky svedomia — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Slovene: kesanje — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Slovene: obžalovanje — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Slovene: kes — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Spanish: remordimiento — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Spanish: compunción — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Swedish: ånger — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Swedish: samvetskval — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Thai: สํานึกผิด (sǎm-nʉ́k-pìt) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Thai: การเสียดาย (kwaam-sǐia-daai) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Ottoman Turkish: اوگنج (evgenc) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Ukrainian: му́ки сумлі́ння (múky sumlínnja) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Ukrainian: каяття́ (kajattjá) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Ukrainian: му́ки со́вісті (múky sóvisti) — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Vietnamese: hối hận — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning
• Welsh: edifeirwch — feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning