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v. To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.

v. To urge, encourage, or help (a person): abetted the thief in robbing the bank.

v. To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.

v. To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts

v. To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.

v. To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

n. Act of abetting; aid.

To encourage by aid or approval: used with a personal object, and chiefly in a bad sense.

To maintain; support; uphold.

In law, to encourage, counsel, incite, or assist in a criminal act — implying, in the case of felony, personal presence.

Hence To lead to or encourage the commission of.

Synonyms To support, encourage, second, countenance, aid, assist, back, connive at, stand by, further.

n. The act of aiding or encouraging, especially in a crime.

v. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

"* The proposed five-year sentence for those who "abet" a same-sex relationship is greater than the punishment stipulated in the bill for those who enter into a "same gender marriage.""

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