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  • noun Common misspelling of compromise.
  • verb Common misspelling of compromise.

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Examples

  • When the GOP got their way on the apointments they wanted John McGeezer waves the flag of "compromize" which was a complete false description of what actually happened. john

    McCain touts 'Gang of 14,' immigration reform 2008

  • This nature has never had much sense of compromize; it has been accustomed to straight aim and effort, to a grand self-reliance; and this joined, or rather subordinated, to a burning moral purpose, may explain the fervour — the attraction to some, and the repulsion to others — of the career of a great modern statesman.

    Mr. Gladstone 2009

  • The problem is that the right wing only wants things done their way and refuse to compromize AT ALL.

    Borger: Congress needs 'Boss Obama' 2009

  • In one of his much fewer responses, Mr. Corzine warns her that he was "Trying during bargaining to not prejudice, compromize sic or endanger either of us."

    Corzine Agonistes Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • This nature has never had much sense of compromize; it has been accustomed to straight aim and effort, to a grand self-reliance; and this joined, or rather subordinated, to a burning moral purpose, may explain the fervour — the attraction to some, and the repulsion to others — of the career of a great modern statesman.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Re: I'm just not certain that your seeming certainty as to the scope of compromize and adjustment will be as significant as you think it will.

    Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009

  • I'm just not certain that your seeming certainty as to the scope of compromize and adjustment will be as significant as you think it will.

    Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009

  • I would have to compromize by saying it's a historical novel with a core of true, everlasting romance, the characters are so larger than life and their relationship so heartfelt that it's the spine of the entire series 6 books and counting.

    Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Headed to the Big Screen « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Ur responze to Zzzazza duz nawt menshun teh fakt dat teh warmest place on teh bed iz directly ON teh hoomin…mebbee he shud try stretchin owt ontop ov hiz hoomin…good compromize.

    Dear Cheeseburger Jerks, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I seem to recall that a few years agoin our part of the World, the Anglo-Saxons were dismayed that the Danes were so very good at carrying out Open Heart Surgery (and they economized by not incurring the costs of anaesthetics), but the Danes had a strange inability to understand German (as Anglo-Saxon was then called) …. hence the need to compromize by inventing English

    my god, it’s full of stars « raincoaster 2007

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