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Abet Encourage Aid Wrong Commit Crime French Term

Word Aid and abet
Description Help and encourage someone to do something wrong especially to commit a crime.

Abet comes from an Old French term meaning to encourage a hound to bite.

1986 Frank Peretti - This Present Darkness – She strained to think of... any friend who would still aid and abet a fugitive from the law without questions. Help and encourage someone to do something wrong especially to commit a crime.

Abet comes from an Old French term meaning to encourage a hound to bite.

1986 Frank Peretti - This Present Dark

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