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Embattled

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Adjective

1. embattled

prepared for battle

Example Sentences:
'an embattled city'

2. battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled

having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement

Example Sentences:
'a crenelated molding'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Embattled

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adjective

1.

prepared for or engaged in conflict, controversy, or battle

2. heraldry

having an indented edge resembling battlements

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Embattled

see synonyms of embattled

adjective

1.

prepared or arrayed for battle

2.

engaged in a battle, conflict, or controversy

3.

being subjected to attack, criticism, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Embattled

see synonyms of embattled

adj.

1.

a. Prepared or fortified for battle: an embattled city wall.

b. Engaged in battle: “Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

2. Beset with attackers, criticism, or controversy: an embattled legislative minority.

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