abetting
Assisting criminal activity
Abetting is encouraging or assisting someone in wrongdoing, especially a crime.
The word almost always appears in legal contexts alongside "aiding": charged with aiding and abetting fraud.
To abet is to provide support or assistance, typically with knowledge that the act is wrong.
The abettor need not be present when the crime occurs.
Providing assistance to
- assistingGiving help to
- enablingMaking something feasible
- helpingSingle portion given
- furtheringAiding progress of
expediting · fostering · advancing · promoting · supporting · backing · sanctioning · endorsing
Crime's willing helper
- accessorySupplementary addition
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
- connivanceWillful blindness to wrongdoing
culpability · incrimination · involvement · participation · enabler · bystander · witness · tacit
Convincing through reasoning
- inducementMotivating factor or offer
- instigationAct of provoking action
- enticementSomething that attracts
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
manipulation · pressure · leverage · sway · steering · prompting · seduction · temptation
Storyline or land parcel
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- cabalScheming political faction
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
- machinationCrafty scheming, often hostile
collusion · clandestine · covert · subterfuge · treason · sedition · subversion · betrayal
aiding
Providing assistance to
furthering · expediting · fostering · advancing · promoting · supporting · backing · sanctioning · endorsing · condoning
accomplice
Crime's willing helper
- accessorySupplementary addition
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- collusionFraudulent secret cooperation
connivance · culpability · incrimination · involvement · participation · enabler · bystander · witness · tacit · knowing
persuasion
Convincing through reasoning
- inducementMotivating factor or offer
- instigationAct of provoking action
- enticementSomething that attracts
coercion · manipulation · pressure · leverage · sway · steering · prompting · seduction · temptation · luring
plot
Storyline or land parcel
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- cabalScheming political faction
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
machination · collusion · clandestine · covert · subterfuge · treason · sedition · subversion · betrayal · cloak-and-dagger
incite
Urge toward action
provoke · embolden · exhort · goad · prompt · stimulate · galvanize · rouse · stir · egg on
- Blameblame, fault, culprit, accusation, guilt-tripping
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- complicityaccomplice, aiding, complicity, co-conspirator, conspiracy
- criminal complicityaccomplice, accessory, co-conspirator, complicity, conspirator
- inchoate crimesattempt, conspiracy, solicitation, incitement, criminal conspiracy
abettingthwarting
Obstructing intended outcomes
obstructing · hindering · blocking · preventing · impeding
abettingdeterring
Preventing through fear
discouraging · dissuading · dampening · disheartening · chilling
abettingreporting
Conveying documented information
exposing · denouncing · turning in · betraying · whistleblowing
- aiding and abettingHelping another commit crime