Embattled

Quick meaning: Embattled is an adjective meaning Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).

Meaning

Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).

More Meanings

1. Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
2. Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
3. (figuratively) Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
4. simple past and past participle of embattle
5. (architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
6. (by extension, heraldry) Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.

Example Sentences

[T]he imperial city stood released / From bondage threatened by the embattled East, […]

I fight vvith Hector and his hoſt, alone, / Left, hemm'd around by multitudes, I fall; / For Hector, by his vvhole imbattled force / Attended, comes.

Now finding herself under rapid and accurate fire from the Alabama and Washington, Nagato is embattled, whilst Yamato has to switch to partially engage Iowa.

[Christoph] Meiners has gone so far as to suppose a real confederacy to have been formed […] to overthrow, by means of this controversy, the embattled legions of ignorance.

Synonyms for embattled

Depending on context, synonyms include assailed, threatened, fancy, prepared, unsafe, indented.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsafe, prepared, fancy, indented, crenelated, crenellated.

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