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Synonyms and Antonyms of abetting
- the belief that violent entertainment abets violent behavior in the people who partake of it
advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulating
detonating, setting, setting off, triggering
exciting, galvanizing, inflaming (also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousing
activating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing
- car thieves are often unwittingly abetted by owners foolishly leaving the keys in the ignition
advancing, easing, facilitating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, launching
championing, endorsing (also indorsing), patronizing, promoting, sponsoring
attending, caring (for), comforting, ministering (to), succoring
bolstering, boosting, buttressing, reinforcing (also reenforcing)
advising, counseling (or counselling), guiding, mentoring, nurturing
bailing out, delivering, rescuing, saving
emboldening, encouraging, heartening
benefiting (also benefitting), favoring, obliging, profiting, serving
balking, barring, blocking, constraining, hampering, handicapping, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, obstructing, restraining, strangling
baffling, foiling, frustrating, inconveniencing, interfering, opposing, sabotaging, thwarting
deserting, disappointing, failing, letting down
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