Embattled

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  • adjective. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle.
  • adjective. Beset with attackers, criticism, or controversy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Furnished with battlements; specifically, in heraldry, broken in square projections and depressions like the merlons and intervals of battlements: said of one of the lines forming the boundaries of an ordinary or other bearing; also said of the bearing whose outline is so broken: as, a fesse embattled. Also battled, crénelé, crenelated, crenellated. Also written imbattled.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having indentations like a battlement.
  • adjective. Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
  • adjective. Having been the place of battle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
  • adjective. Prepared or armed for battle.
  • adjective. Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.
  • adjective. Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of embattle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. prepared for battle
  • adjective. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
  • Word Usage
    "With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure."
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    fancy  prepared  
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    embattle