meaning of embattled
1. Having indentations like a battlement.
2. Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.
4. of Embattle
5. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated
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