aid and abet
Assist illegal activity
Aid and abet is a legal phrase meaning to help and encourage someone in committing a crime.
The two words are near-synonyms joined for emphasis and completeness—aid covers material assistance, abet covers incitement or encouragement.
Outside legal contexts, the phrase is often used loosely or humorously: Who aided and abetted you in eating the whole cake?
To give support
- helpAssistance given
- facilitateMake something easier
- enableMake something feasible
- supportTo uphold or sustain
conspire · collude · collaborate · cooperate · accessory · accomplice · participate · partner
assist
To give support
- helpAssistance given
- facilitateMake something easier
- enableMake something feasible
support · conspire · collude · collaborate · cooperate · accessory · accomplice · participate · partner · confederate
encourage
Urge forward with support
spur · instigate · provoke · goad · push · embolden · induce · persuade · egg on · influence
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
aid and abetreport
Formal written findings
turn in · inform on · blow the whistle · expose · denounce
aid, assistant, assistance, aide, aiding, aided, aids, aides, abet