abet
verb · nounA1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)(transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
aid and abet
Đồng nghĩa: collude, conspire, connive
- 2.
(transitive)To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).
Đồng nghĩa: approve, patronize, sanction, support, tolerate
- 3.
(obsolete, transitive)To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
Đồng nghĩa: instigate, foment, encourage, support, abet, actuate, goose, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about, cheer, draw, drive, encourage, egg on, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, lash, motive, motivate, move, obligate, oblige, push, promote, prompt, provoke, rouse, set off, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up
- 4.
(obsolete)To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(obsolete)Fraud or cunning.
- 2.
(obsolete)An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
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ine-pro From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (to entice), from a- (to) + beter (hound on, urge, to bait), either from Middle Dutch bētan (incite) or from Old Norse beita (to cause to bite, bait, incite), from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (to cause to bite), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (to split). Cognate with beita.