compromising

compromising

1. present participle and gerund of compromise

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.

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!