abet

v. encourage or help someone to do something (especially something illegal)

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Verb
1. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
(hypernym) assist
(derivation) abetment, instigation

(v. t.)
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
  

(v. t.)
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.
  

(v. t.)
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
  

(n.)
Act of abetting; aid.
  

The act of encouraging or inciting another to do a certain thing, such as a crime. - (read more on Abet)