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compromised

adjective C1
  1. That has been exposed to danger, risk, or discredit.
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My dread is, however, that in your eyes and in the eyes of others he may appear to be compromised.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 60 · B2
As for Villefort, instead of sending to Paris, he carefully preserved the petition that so fearfully compromised Dantès, in the hopes of an event that seemed not unlikely,—that is, a second restoration.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 125 · C1
She compromised with her conscience by saying severely:
Anne of Green Gables, p. 77 · C1
They were always just going to have a leader, and laws and customs of their own, but they never did, because their memories would not hold over from day to day, and so they compromised things by making up a saying, “What the Bandar-log think now the jungle will think later,” and that comforted them a great deal.
The Jungle Book, p. 36 · B2

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