embattled

Meanings

1. Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
2. Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
3. Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
4. Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.

1. simple past and past participle of embattle

1. Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
2. 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.

1. simple past and past participle of embattle

Etymology

From embattle (“to equip as for battle”) + -ed.