compromising
English edit
Verb edit
compromising
- present participle and gerund of compromise
Adjective edit
compromising (comparative more compromising, superlative most compromising)
- Willing or able to make a compromise.
- Synonym: transigent
- That compromises somebody or something; incriminating.
- A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.
Translations edit
incriminating
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Noun edit
compromising (plural compromisings)
- 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!