The Indian government has warned Facebook it will treat the company as a legal abettor to violence if it does not develop tools to better combat the spread of false information.
Source: tatoeba (11168923)
Abettor
//əˈbɛtə//
Synonyms for "abettor" (86 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (43)
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Translations
53 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- подстрека́тел noun (inciter)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 幫兇 /幫凶 /帮凶 noun (accomplice)
- 幫兇 /幫凶 /帮凶 noun (inciter)
- 教唆犯 noun (inciter)
Czech
2 entries- podněcovatel noun (inciter)
- spoluviník noun (accomplice)
Dutch
4 entries- aanstichter noun (inciter)
- handlanger noun (accomplice)
- medeplichtige noun (accomplice)
- ophitser noun (inciter)
Finnish
2 entries- avunantaja noun (accomplice)
- yllyttäjä noun (inciter)
French
3 entries- complice noun (accomplice)
- incitateur noun (inciter)
- incitatrice noun (inciter)
German
4 entries- Anstachler noun (inciter)
- Anstifter noun (inciter)
- Anstifterin noun (inciter)
- Helfershelfer noun (accomplice)
Interlingua
1 entries- complice noun (accomplice)
Irish
1 entries- neartaitheoir noun (accomplice)
Italian
4 entries- agitatore noun (inciter)
- agitatrice noun (inciter)
- aizzatore noun (inciter)
- aizzatrice noun (inciter)
Japanese
3 entries- 共犯者 noun (accomplice)
- 教唆犯 noun (inciter)
- 教唆者 noun (inciter)
Portuguese
2 entries- cúmplice noun (accomplice)
- incitador noun (inciter)
Russian
4 entries- подстрека́тель noun (inciter)
- подстрека́тельница noun (inciter)
- посо́бник noun (accomplice)
- посо́бница noun (accomplice)
Spanish
1 entries- cómplice noun (accomplice)
Swedish
1 entries- anstiftare noun (accomplice)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd! Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
Source: wiktionary
[…] when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself […]
Source: wiktionary
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