The other three ex-police officers were tried in August for aiding and abetting Chauvin. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. To see these acts is not entirely wrong, but it is to undermine decency. In court Wednesday, he admitted two federal charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting obstruction of official proceedings. She, who supported you in her quarrels with Mrs. Williams, exclaimed: “To her again, investigate! But, far from making Rajapaksa more responsible, his presence in Sri Lanka will likely only help his rise. He was there to help and support when Wade got hot in the fourth quarter. Nature seemed to help and favor Dinah, who, as Bianchon had predicted, gradually developed a deep passion. From Middle English abetten, abette, Old French abeter (“to curl”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“dog on, push, bait”), or from Middle Dutch bētan (“to induce”) or from Old Norse beita (“to bite, bait, to induce”)[1], from Proto-Germanic *baitijaną (“to bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheyd- (“to split”). Related to Icelandic beita (“Dogs tie; to feed”). Those who did so used their medical training not to treat patients, but to encourage their abuse. Therefore, they also supported and facilitated this terrorist organization with its misguided and short-sighted policies.
The alternative etymology traces Middle English and Old French words through Old English *ābǣtan (“to hunt”), from ā- + bǣtan (“bait”), from the same Proto-Germanic source. The 28-page indictment, released Thursday, accuses the men of conspiracy and aiding and abetting obstruction of a joint session of Congress, even though only one defendant entered the Capitol. That is why I agree to facilitate a crime and to remain silent about it. abet (third person singular simple present abets, present participle incentive, simple past and favored past participle) People who provide, invent or agree fall under the words aid and abet. Our political leaders must demand that their colleague resign immediately, instead of aiding and abetting the barbaric criminal. Romeo Francisco Ramirez, Cristian Andy Santay-Rosales and Diego Rigoberto Lopez, 18 each, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to four federal charges of conspiracy, aiding and abetting a car. The verb encourage can be used to generally mean encouragement, but people generally expect to see it in relation to a crime. “The singer was initiated by a pianist in her interpretation of Silver Bells,” is a harmless construction, for example. However, people often expect Abet to write a sentence like this: “She was accused of aiding and abetting a burglar because she was driving the get-and-run car.” Abet comes from an old French word abeter and means “bait”.
Supporting means helping someone do something, usually something wrong. If you were on the lookout while your older sister wiped the cookies from the cookie jar, you were facilitating her mischief. Middle English abetten, borrowed from Anglo-French abeter, from a-, prefix in transitive verbs (va in Latin ad- ad-) + beter “harass (a bear with dogs), bait”, borrowed from Old Low Franconian *bÄtan; similar to the Old English bÇ£tan “put (with animals), bait” – more at the entrance of the bait 1 All the better, my dear young lady, that is, if you are willing to help me and support me a little. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add it or discuss it in the scriptorium etymology.) Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.