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abetted

/uh-bet/US // əˈbɛt //UK // (əˈbɛt) //

教唆,教唆的,资助的,资助

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·bet·ted, a·bet·ting.

    • : to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing: to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.

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Examples

  • In this most recent escalation of a four-year putsch — abetted by some of the same representatives and senators whose chambers were attacked by the mob — we see the last few threads of Trumpism that were never explicit now made manifest.

  • At stake for the companies is whether the original plaintiffs have a case against them at all, for allegedly aiding and abetting human rights abuses.

  • Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover.

  • Because it is a political rhetoric of anti-Western resistance —ironically, abetted by Westerners themselves.

  • In 1971, the United States abetted a genocide in what is today Bangladesh.

  • In its confusion it has aided and abetted the rising power of the Muslim Brotherhood.

  • Forget about the Second Amendment—the gun lobby, abetted by timorous Republicans, is trying to privatize law and order.

  • That he would be abetted by Black Jack was almost certain, but fear had fled the happy heart of Freckles.

  • Ancient, and, unhappily, recent subjects of jealousy lead him to suspect us of having abetted a crime which our bosom abhors.

  • Thus abetted and equipped he came, after a taxi ride and a walk, into his grandmother's street.

  • By this time the ladies realized what the two men were after, and abetted the plan with all of their persuasions.

  • Whether you knew it or not, you've abetted a criminal in escaping from the law, and I've my duty to do.