accessory after the fact

Noun

Meaning

a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

accessory before the fact after the fact covering up accessary before the fact accessories after the fact accomplice to a crime aiding and abetting accessory to the crime as an accessory complicity in a crime complicity in the crime

Antonyms

loss opposition enemy opponent rival expose
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Hypernyms

accessory accessary

Related terms

accessory before the fact

Examples

To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed. Philip Kapleau

A 25-year-old Welland man is also charged with accessory after the fact. Source: Internet

Earlier this week, RCMP announced four people face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and forcible confinement and a fifth person faces a charge of accessory after the fact to murder. Source: Internet

He was taken to Riverstone police station and charged with murder and accessory after the fact to murder. Source: Internet

It is true that 15 year-old have been charged, as adults, with first-degree murder, while Jones is charged as an accessory after the fact, but Jones is also reported to have said “I pulled the trigger” Source: Internet

He also made a plea deal and was given a sentence of just 22 months in prison, after his initial charges of accessory after the fact and manslaughter were reduced. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

accessorize accessorized accessory accessory battery accessory before the fact accessory board