embattled

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɛmˈbætl̩d/, /ɪm-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɛmˈbæt(ə)ld/, /ɪm-/, [-ɾ(ə)ld] Hyphenation: em‧bat‧tled === Etymology 1 === From embattle (“to equip as for battle”) +‎ -ed. ==== Adjective ==== embattled (comparative more embattled, superlative most embattled) Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively). Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively). Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified. (figuratively) Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure. Synonyms: assailed, threatened ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== embattled simple past and past participle of embattle === Etymology 2 === From embattle (“to furnish with battlements”) +‎ -ed. ==== Adjective ==== embattled (comparative more embattled, superlative most embattled) (architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated. (by extension, heraldry) 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. Synonym: crénelé Coordinate term: counterembattled ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== embattled simple past and past participle of embattle === References === === Further reading === battle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia battlement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “embattled”, in Collins English Dictionary. “embattled” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman. “embattled”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “embattled”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries