compromising

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of compromise

adj

1. Willing or able to make a compromise.
2. That compromises somebody or something; incriminating.

   “A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.”

noun

1. The act by which something is compromised.

   “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!”