embattled
pronunciation
How to pronounce embattled in British English:
UK [ɪmˈbætld]
How to pronounce embattled in American English:
US [ɛmˈbætld]
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- Adjective:
- beset with attackers or controversy or conflict
- prepared for battle
- having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Word Origin
- embattled (adj.)
- "under attack," by 1882; earlier and more etymologically it meant "prepared to fight" (late 15c.), and (of structures) "fitted with battlements" (late 14c.); past participle adjective from embattle (v.).
Example
- 1. Stock prices jumped : those of embattled french banks soared by almost 20 % in just two days .
- 2. The site looks scruffier than it did four years ago , when this correspondent last visited it . Litter drifts around empty pitches , wasps hover near overflowing bins and dogs bark outside each embattled caravan .
- 3. Such violence can only mean that yemen 's embattled president , ali abdullah saleh , is losing his already long-tenuous grip on power as more people throughout the country join the calls for his ouster .
- 4. A visit to the embattled city of ajdabiya finds the anti-qaddafi resistance slightly less ragtag than before , but still not quite professional .
- 5. The embattled government in bahrain invited 2000 troops from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates on to its soil to help its security forces curb a growing protest movement .