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compromised

[ kom-pruh-mahyzd ]

adjective

, Pathology.
  1. unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.


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  • non·compro·mised adjective
  • un·compro·mised adjective

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That’s a separate question apart from what might have happened to older and more compromised people in their communities.

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The cyberattack cost them up to $15 million to remediate, not to mention the value of compromised marketing data of both company and its customers.

One hypothesis is the virus is evolving inside immune-compromised people, where it can persist for months while learning to dodge the immune system.

If your Apple or Google account gets compromised, your emails, photos, notes, calendars, and messages could all be vulnerable, and you wouldn’t necessarily know it.

Quality-control measures failed to prevent the shipping of compromised kits to dozens of state and local public health labs.

There are parts of the film where “the science had to be compromised in order to make a great movie,” Thorne says.

The writer has followed a rule but compromised clarity; whether the vote or the approval was immediate is ambiguous.

Four days later, 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers were compromised and leaked online by a hacker.

Is it just a matter of time before an operation is compromised?

The researchers even recommended that people with compromised immune systems boil their Brita water.

Of these Napoleon was well advised, but Bernadotte was too cunning to allow himself to be compromised absolutely.

But glorious as his conduct was, his rash impetuosity more than once seriously compromised Napoleon's plans.

I wanted to jump and shout, but I compromised by taking Dr. Hudson down for a gleeful drink and planning our next tactic.

Abramko had allowed himself to be compromised in the Polish insurrection and Magus was interested in saving him.

I attended Ireland with great alacrity; but the business seems to be compromised.

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