compromise | Definition of compromise

compromise

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of compromise

1 to place in danger

officials at the state department were concerned that his statements would compromise national security

Synonyms of compromise

adventure, endanger, gamble (with), hazard, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize, menace, peril, risk, venture

Words Related to compromise

intimidate, threaten

Near Antonyms of compromise

guard, protect, shelter, shield

preserve, resume, save

2 to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the deletion of several critical points for space considerations really compromised the essay

Synonyms of compromise

blemish, bloody, break, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil, vitiate

Words Related to compromise

deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken

erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)

blight, tarnish

dent, ding, dint

botch, gum (up), queer

lacerate, wound

disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture

annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck

Near Antonyms of compromise

cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedy

edit, remodel, revise

ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine

Antonyms of compromise

doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp