embattled

  1. Adjective.  Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
  2. Adjective.  Prepared or armed for battle.
  3. Adjective.  Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.
  4. Adjective.  (heraldry) Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions.
  5. Verb.  (past of, embattle) .

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