Adjective compromising has 2 senses
  1. compromising, conciliatory, flexible - making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
    Antonyms: uncompromising, inflexible, hard-line, hardline, unyielding
  2. compromising - vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion; "she found herself in a compromising situation"
    Antonym:
    invulnerable (indirect, via vulnerable)
,Verb compromise has 3 senses
  1. compromise - make a compromise; arrive at a compromise; "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise"
    --1 is one way to
    agree
    Derived forms: noun compromise2, noun compromise1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. compromise - settle by concession
    --2 is one way to
    settle, square off, square up, determine
    Derived forms: noun compromise2, noun compromise1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. compromise - expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy"
    --3 is one way to
    queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
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