Embattled

What do we mean by embattled?

Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle. adjective

Beset with attackers, criticism, or controversy. adjective

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.

Having indentations like a battlement. adjective

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. adjective

Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates. adjective

Prepared or armed for battle. adjective

Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations. adjective

Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of embattle. verb

Prepared for battle adjective

Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement adjective

To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle

To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.

To be arrayed for battle.

Words that are spelled similarly to embattled:
embattled, embattle, enbattled, embattles, embottle, battled, embrittled.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word embattled:
parapet, quatrefoil, weathervane, gules, argent, tracery, sable, clerestory, saltire, aisles, azure, doorway, belli, vert, fess, surmounted, octagonal, pyramidal, lancet, spire, stair, pierced, aisle, wavy, nave, chancel, moulded, porch, turret, rampant, belfry, perpendicular, bells, chevron, openings, storeys, cornice, gabled, corners, piers, window, dexter, tower, arched, descend, sinister, bays, crest, motto, unpopular, windows, okinawa, roofs, hoover, partition, corner, lion, staircase, stained, gable, arch, tudor, font, carved, angles, lights, incumbent, shield, decorated, roof, arms, crowned, congressman, carpenter, clock, sides, wall, door, circular, rebuilt, canton, peninsula, bell, blocked, walls, pointed, containing, angle, norman, dated, gothic, dreams, gate, garrison, thick, contains, charged, entrance, dates, fired.

Words that rhyme with embattled:
rattled, tattled, battled, prattled, matilde.

Adjectives that are often used to describe embattled:
chief, fess, reed, corny, pale.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective embattled:
tower, farmers, parapet, walls, wall, minority, hosts, towers, president, city, position, nation, armies, government, forces, state, parapets, nations, country, host, community, group, field, world, lines, fortress, farmer, army, leader, troops, republic, regime, pile, turrets, gateway, plain, democracy, workers, situation, church, britain, ranks, communities, island, legions, minister, defenders, house, europe, cornice, town, turret, figure, south, top, front, squadrons, paradise, train, soldiers, union, courage, land, administration, leaders, seraphim, status, foes, powers, company, castles, positions, gate, garrison, warriors, industry, hero, allies, self, secretary, territory, parties.

Words that sound like embattled:
embattled, embattle, enbattled, emboweled, embowelled, embezzled, embedded, embroiled, embittered, emptily, embowel, unbarrelled, impaneled, ambled, imbedded, combated, combatted, unbated, emmett till, mbl, emmet till, emerald, entitled, emptied, embezzle, embodied, unbridled, emitted, imperiled, unbuttoned, unbuckled, mtl, immotile, imbezzle, imperilled, abutted, mbti, unbundled, empurpled, mbt, empaled, embrittle, immitted, abuttal.