Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle.
- adjective Beset with attackers, criticism, or controversy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having indentations like a battlement.
- adjective (Her.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Subject to or troubled by
battles ,controversy ordebates . - adjective Prepared or
armed forbattle . - adjective Of a
wall ,fortress , etc., havingbattlements orcrenellations . - adjective heraldry Drawn with a line of alternating
square indentations andextensions . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
embattle .
from 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
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Examples
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MEXICO CITY - Gunmen stormed a birthday party in embattled Ciudad Juarez and killed 13 young people, the latest outrage in a city crippled by warring drug gangs.
13 killed in violence at party in Mexico William Booth 2010
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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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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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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.
First Posters From Ridley Scott’s ROBIN HOOD – Collider.com 2009
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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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Ward Carroll, an aviator who flew with Honors, called the embattled officer "one of the good guys" but said he doesn't expect him to be the commander of the Enterprise when it deploys this month.
USS Enterprise Video Scandal: Racy Clips Raise Questions About Navy Culture AP/The Huffington Post 2011
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Ward Carroll, an aviator who flew with Honors, called the embattled officer "one of the good guys" but said he doesn't expect him to be the commander of the Enterprise when it deploys this month.
USS Enterprise Video Scandal: Racy Clips Raise Questions About Navy Culture AP/The Huffington Post 2011
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The recently concluded petition to recall our embattled mayor failed miserably.
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Bush reached out yuk—hate that phrase—RB Friday to support longtime ally Musharraf, calling the embattled Pakistani president to assure him of continued US backing.
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Bush reached out yuk—hate that phrase—RB Friday to support longtime ally Musharraf, calling the embattled Pakistani president to assure him of continued US backing.
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