Compromise vs Deteriorate - What's the difference?
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The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
* Hallam
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
* Lamb
(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
* Shakespeare
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
* Fuller
To find a way between extremes.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
* Motley
To cause impairment of.
To breach (a security system).
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
* Southey
To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
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In lang=en terms the difference between compromise and deteriorate
is that compromise is to breach (a security system) while deteriorate is to grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.As verbs the difference between compromise and deteriorate
is that compromise is (ambitransitive) to bind by mutual agreement while deteriorate is to make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.As a noun compromise
is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.compromise
English
(wikipedia compromise)Noun
(en noun)- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- a compromise of character or right
- I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
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(compromis)- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- The controversy may easily be compromised .
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
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* compromising (adjective )External links
* ----deteriorate
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Verb
(deteriorat)- to deteriorate the mind
- The art of war, like every other art, ecclesiastical architecture alone excepted, was greatly deteriorated during those years of general degradation
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