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EMBATTLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embattled mean?
• EMBATTLED (adjective)
The adjective EMBATTLED has 3 senses:
1. (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict
2. prepared for battle
3. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Familiarity information: EMBATTLED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict
Context example:
the state legislature called for the embattled governor's resignation
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Prepared for battle
Context example:
an embattled city
Similar:
prepared (made ready or fit or suitable beforehand)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Synonyms:
battlemented; castellated; castled; embattled
Context example:
a crenelated molding
Similar:
fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)
Context examples
A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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