Usually means: Encouraged or assisted in wrongdoing.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word abetted:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. abetted: Merriam-Webster
  2. abetted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abetted: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abetted: Vocabulary.com
  5. Abetted, abetted: Wordnik
  6. abetted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abetted: Wiktionary
  8. abetted: Dictionary.com
  9. abetted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Abetted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Abetted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Abetted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. abetted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. abetted: FreeDictionary.org
  15. abetted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abetted: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abetted: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abetted: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abet)

verb:  (transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
verb:  (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
verb:  (obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
noun:  (obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
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