соде́йствовать — meaning in English

English meaning

• abet verb To help or encourage someone to do something wrong, especially a crime.
• assist verb To help someone do something.
• avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
• further verb To help advance or promote something.
• stead noun The place or role of someone or something, especially when taken over by a replacement, as in "in his stead."

Senses

соде́йствовать is used for these senses in English:

• abet (transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action). [late 16th c.]
• avail (transitive) To promote; to assist.
• make for (idiomatic) To tend to produce or result in.
• stead (obsolete) To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.

abet — full definition

1. verb To help or encourage someone to do something wrong, especially a crime.
2. verb To support or back up a good cause, opinion or action.
3. verb To push someone towards doing something worthwhile.
4. verb (dated) To back a prediction by putting money on it.

assist — full definition

1. verb To help someone do something.
2. noun In sports, a pass or action that directly leads to a teammate scoring.

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