Embattled

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle: embattled troops; an embattled city.
  • adj. Beset with attackers, criticism, or controversy: an embattled legislative minority.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
  • adj. Prepared or armed for battle.
  • adj. Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.
  • adj. Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of embattle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having indentations like a battlement.
  • adj. Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
  • adj. Having been the place of battle.
    • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. prepared for battle
  • adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
    • Equivalent
    prepared    fancy   
    Cross Reference
    battled embattled    embattled grady    embattled molding   
    Verb Stem
    embattle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    battled    prattled    rattled    tattled   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beleaguered    Moorish    impregnable    moss-grown    Lebanese   
     
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