abet
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To encourage or assist someone in committing a crime or wrongdoing.
She was charged with helping to plan and abet the robbery.
Law verb
To assist or encourage someone in the commission of a crime.
He was charged not with striking the blow himself but with abetting the assault by pinning the victim down.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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