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Commit and Compromising

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
    • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • Confer a trust upon.
    • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • Make an investment.
    • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • Engage in or perform.
    • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

verb

  • Make a compromise; arrive at a compromise.
    • usage: "nobody will get everything he wants; we all must compromise"
  • Settle by concession.
  • Expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.
    • usage: "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy"

adjective

  • Making or willing to make concessions.
    • usage: "loneliness tore through him... Whenever he thought of... Even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
  • Vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion.
    • usage: "she found herself in a compromising situation"
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Compromise.