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English Dictionary: compromising	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for compromising
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
compromising adj making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" Synonym(s): compromising, conciliatory, flexible Antonym(s): inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion; "she found herself in a compromising situation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compromise \Com"pro*mise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compromised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compromising}.] [From {Compromise}, n.; cf. {Compromit}.] 1. To bind by mutual agreement; to agree. [Obs.] Laban and himself were compromised That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire. --Shak. 2. To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. The controversy may easily be compromised. --Fuller. 3. To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances. --Motley.