Usually means: Assists or encourages someone, wrongdoing.
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  1. abets: Merriam-Webster
  2. abets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abets: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. abets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abets: Wiktionary
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  9. abets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. abets: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abets: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abets: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abet)

verb:  (transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
verb:  (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
verb:  (obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
noun:  (obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
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