v. to help someone commit a crime, including helping them escape ...

assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing "Since YouTube, digital culture has aided and enhanced -- or maybe the better word is abetted -- the celebrity meltdown," said Wired magazine [..]

late 14c., "urge on, incite" (implied in abetting), from Old French abeter "to bait, to harass with dogs," literally "to cause to bite," from a- "to" (see ad-) [..]

to help, usually in the commission of a crime.

v. To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).

abet·ted abet·ting : to assist, encourage, instigate, or support with criminal intent in attempting or carrying out a crime often used in the phrase aid and abet abet·ment n ...

Abet means to criminally assist someone in committing a crime. Abetting may occur in planning a crime or escape from apprehension, as well as actually committing the crime. Abetting may occur through [..]

(v) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

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  See Aiding and Abetting.

    Abet

To assist or encourage as an accomplice in the commission of an offence, being present when the offence is committed. One who abets is a principal in the second degree.

To abet is to encourage or induce someone to undertake a course of action, often illegally.

See Aiding and Abetting.

v. to help someone commit a crime, including helping them escape from police or plan the crime.

(obsolete,transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.en|incite,at.

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