To abet is to help someone do something, usually something wrong. If you were the lookout while your older sister swiped cookies from the cookie jar, you abetted her mischief.
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts;
Verb
assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
v. t.
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used
in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet
one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
v. t.
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good
sense.
v. t.
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the
commission of an offense.
n.
Act of abetting; aid.
Abet
Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?2.
Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted.3.
Abet
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts;
Act of abetting; aid.
Usage Examples
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
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