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Embattled
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Meaning
Adj
●
Armed or
prepared
for
battle
(literally or figuratively).
●
In Military:
Of a place:
occupied
or
surrounded
by
armed
troops
(also figurative).
●
Of a place:
strengthened
so as to
withstand
attacks
; fortified.
●
In Military:
Subject to or
troubled
by
attacks
,
controversy
, or pressure.
●
In Architecture:
Of a
fortress
or other
building
, a
wall
, etc.: having
battlements
or
crenellations
;
battlemented
, crenellated.
●
In Heraldry & Military:
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
●
In Military:
simple past
and
past participle
of embattle
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Disenfranchised
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Unrepresented
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