abet
verb (used with object)
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing.
had abetted
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past perfectof abet.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By the same token, Credit Suisse, the second-biggest Swiss bank, told investors that the $2.6 billion in fines it paid when admitting it had abetted tax dodgers was not “material”.
From Economist ● May 21, 2015
Mossad told Meir he was head of Black September in Rome and had abetted the Munich massacre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Editor Mendel last October charged that the Kaiser had abetted Krupps in its monopoly of German ordinance, to the Army's harm.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this conjecture be admitted, the deed Paul had abetted, may have been the immediate cause of his own moral revulsion of feeling.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
You say that the bishop had abetted that, and that he had sided with and aided the brothers.
