compromising

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of compromise

2. 2

   Willing or able to make a compromise.

3. 3

   That compromises somebody or something

   That compromises somebody or something; incriminating.

   • A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.
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   1. 4

      The act by which something is compromised.

      • There hath been much of treason, And much of violence and shame, To the old worship of that spring-life season; And compromisings of a sacred claim!

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