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All abet synonyms

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verb abet

  • incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
  • condone — If someone condones behaviour that is morally wrong, they accept it and allow it to happen.
  • provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
  • instigate — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
  • urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
  • advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
  • promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
  • support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
  • sanction — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
  • back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
  • goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
  • prod — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
  • spur — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
  • assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
  • back up — If someone or something backs up a statement, they supply evidence to suggest that it is true.
  • connive — If one person connives with another to do something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.
  • egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
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