abets
Helps do wrong
Abets is the third-person singular of abet, meaning to encourage or assist someone in wrongdoing.
The word appears almost exclusively in legal or quasi-legal contexts: aids and abets, abets a crime.
To abet is to provide support or approval for an act, usually one that's forbidden or harmful: She abets his gambling habit.
Storyline or land parcel
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- cabalScheming political faction
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
- machinationCrafty scheming, often hostile
clandestine · covert · subterfuge · treason · sedition · subversion · betrayal · connivance
Supplementary addition
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- complicityShared criminal involvement
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- incriminateShow involvement in wrongdoing
indictment · misprision · obstruction · perpetrator · prosecution · solicitation · transgression · offense
Willful blindness to wrongdoing
- tacitUnderstood without words
- implicitUnderstood without being stated
- silentProducing no sound
- endorsementFormal expression of support
concealment · cover-up · omission · passivity · noninterference · enabler · condone · overlook
plot
Storyline or land parcel
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- cabalScheming political faction
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
machination · clandestine · covert · subterfuge · treason · sedition · subversion · betrayal · connivance · cloak-and-dagger
accessory
Supplementary addition
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- complicityShared criminal involvement
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
incriminate · indictment · misprision · obstruction · perpetrator · prosecution · solicitation · transgression · offense · guilt
connivance
Willful blindness to wrongdoing
endorsement · concealment · cover-up · omission · passivity · noninterference · enabler · condone · overlook · tolerate
enable
Make something feasible
encourage · advance · promote · foster · accelerate · empower · catalyze · boost · further · smooth
abetsthwarts
Frustrates or blocks
hinders · obstructs · impedes · blocks · frustrates
abetsdiscourages
Lessens motivation to act
deters · dissuades · disheartens · dampens · demoralizes
- aiding and abettingHelping another commit crime
- aid and abetHelp with lawbreaking
- aided and abettedHelped with wrongdoing
abet, abettor, abetting, abetted, abetment, abetters, abetter