embattled
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Synonyms: embattle, enbattled, embattles, battled, embottle, embrittled
Antonyms: embattle, enbattled, embattles, battled, embottle, embrittled
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Adjective
- Armed or prepared for battle .
- Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops .
- Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
- Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
Verb
- simple past and past participle of embattle
Adjective
- Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
- 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.
Verb
- simple past and past participle of embattle
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