| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Abet.[Websters]
2. To be vexed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have stimulated, riled, annoyed, teased or aggravated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be worried, embittered or beleaguered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have irritated, gnawed or incited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be animated or spirited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have harassed, irked, unnerved or disrupted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be unsettled or darkened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have pushed, pestered, squeezed, enforced or boosted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be bewildered.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb abet.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (abet) | 1. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.[Wordnet]. 2. To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.[Websters]. 3. To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.[Websters]. 4. To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: abetting, abetted, abets, abettor, abettors, abettingly and abettedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ABETTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ABETTED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Incited, aided, encouraged to a crime.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of abet. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: abet
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To abet | Law | TO ABET, crim. law. To encourage or set another on to commit a crime. This word is always taken in a bad sense. To abet another to commit a murder, is to command, procure, or counsel him to commit it. Old Nat. Brev 21; Col Litt. 475. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: abet
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| ABET | English | Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technologies | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: abet | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Abet Guidaben | 14 | Abet Guidaben | 14 | |
| Aid and abet | 4 | Aid and abet | 4 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
