accomplice
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6.7
- noun
- /əˈkɑːmplɪs/
:
cómplice
- When embarking on an audacious crime, a duck needs a willing accomplice.
- conspirator and accomplice
- an unwitting accomplice
- become an accomplice
Why would you make your friend an accomplice to that, right?
- Why would you make your friend an accomplice to that, right?
- You're like, yeah, there's two accomplices right there.
- We we need to to speak up because otherwise we are accomplices in these abuses.
- Haley became an unwilling accomplice when Brittany showed her a picture that pulled at Haley's heartstrings.
- And I was like, mummy, I'm just being an accomplice and she beat me like so bad.
Examples
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Imagine that you and a stranger have been arrested as accomplices in manslaughter.
Fiction book (2001) -
His two accomplices are still at large.
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Why would you make your friend an accomplice to that, right?
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Then he gets another car, not himself again, just an accomplice to drive behind the truck and they leave.
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And you... an accomplice to murder?
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But he had an accomplice: me.
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She has an accomplice on board.
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But if we leave the crime scene, we could be convicted of fleeing, or negligence, or maybe even accomplice to murder.
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Witnessing her theft would make me an accomplice, a partner she didn't know she had.
Fiction book (1996) -
The police arrested him as an accomplice in the bank robbery.
Synonyms
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7.7
A person who helps someone commit a crime without taking part directly
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6.2
A person who secretly plans with others to do something illegal or harmful
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7.6
A person who works with others, often secretly, to help do something illegal
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5.6
A person who helps someone secretly, often in a crime
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9.2
A person who helps someone else commit a crime
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9.3
A person who helps another person commit a crime, for example by giving a getaway car
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8.9
A person who helps plan a crime but is not there when it happens
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9.8
A person who helps someone else commit a crime
A person who helps someone avoid arrest after they commit a crime
A person who secretly helps others do something illegal
Antonyms
How Involved
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6.1
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6.2
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6.7
- Specialized
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7.7
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3.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Accomplice comes from Latin parts com- 'with' and plicare 'to fold', the same root you see in duplicate. The idea of being 'folded together' or joined helps explain why an accomplice is someone who is 'with' you in a crime.