What is another word for abet?

Pronunciation: [ɐbˈɛt] (IPA)

Abetting someone can lead to serious consequences. If you want to avoid using this term, there are several synonyms that you can use. Some of these synonyms are aiding, assisting, supporting, encouraging, endorsing, promoting, and backing. Each of these synonyms implies that you are helping somebody in some way, but without the negative connotations associated with the word abet. For instance, assisting and supporting imply that you are offering someone a helping hand, while promoting suggests that you are backing somebody's cause. Endorsing and backing both suggest that you are putting your own reputation and resources behind someone or something. Use these synonyms to avoid negative connotations and say what you mean without causing offense.

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What are the opposite words for abet?

Abet is a verb that means to assist someone in committing a crime or wrongdoing. Its antonyms are words that signify the opposite of it. Some of the antonyms for abet are dissuade, deter, discourage, prevent, obstruct, and hinder. Dissuade means to persuade someone not to do something. Deter means to discourage or restrain someone from doing something. Discourage means to reduce or remove someone's confidence or enthusiasm. Prevent means to stop something from happening. Obstruct means to block or hinder someone from achieving their objective. Hinder means to create a difficulty that prevents someone from making progress. These antonyms are essential considerations in promoting ethical conduct, personal integrity, and a responsible society.

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Usage examples for Abet

There, no doubt, she would marry some down-at-the-heel artist, who would live on her money and go on painting bad pictures to the end of time; and she would aid and abet him and paint worse ones herself!
"Molly Brown's Orchard Home"
Nell Speed
Mrs. Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
It is not the policy of the Great Company, as you doubtless know, to abet its trade with the Indians by the use of liquor.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe

Famous quotes with Abet

  • 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.
    Gordon Parks
  • No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • But the thing all members of governments desire to do is to rule their own people and to collect money from them. This is inherent in their natures. So the United Nations, perforce, will aid and abet the member governments in their universal desire to maintain a coercive hold over their individual subjects. Thus, the United Nations is a government of the governments, by the governments, and for the governments. And it cannot and will not restrain their governments,…
    Robert LeFevre
  • When I was a child of ten, I went on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my Life to an effort to free my country. I have kept the promise. I have helped to organise, to train, and to discipline my fellow-countrymen to the sole end that, when the time came, they might fight for Irish freedom. The time, as it seemed to me, did come, and we went into the fight. I am glad that we did. We seem to have lost; but we have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on its tradition to the future. I repudiate the assertion of the Prosecutor that I sought to aid and abet England’s enemy. Germany is no more to me than England is. I asked and accepted German aid in the shape of arms and an expeditionary force; we neither asked for nor accepted German gold, nor had any traffic with Germany but what I state. My object was to win Irish freedom. We struck the first blow ourselves, but I should have been glad of an ally’s aid. I assume that I am speaking to Englishmen who value their freedom, and who profess to be fighting for the freedom of Belgium and Serbia. Believe that we too love freedom and desire it. To us it is more than anything else in the world. If you strike us down now, we shall rise again, and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.”
    Patrick Pearse

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