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compromising

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Verb

compromising

  1. present participle and gerund of compromise

Adjective

compromising (comparative more compromising, superlative most compromising)

  1. Willing or able to make a compromise.
    Synonym: transigent
  2. That compromises somebody or something; incriminating.
    A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.

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Noun

compromising (plural compromisings)

  1. The act by which something is compromised.
    • 1835, Leigh Hunt, The Monthly Repository, volume 9, page 793:
      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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