abet

abet has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• v. t.. To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
• v. t.. To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
• v. t.. To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
• n.. Act of abetting; aid.
• v.. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing