embattled

Verb

• fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense
  • "an embattled castle"
• prepare for battle or conflict
• simple past and past participle of embattle
• simple past and past participle of embattle

Adjective Satellite

• prepared for battle
  • "an embattled city"
• having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement

Adj

• Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
• Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
• Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
• Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
• Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
• 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.

Synonyms

assailed, battlemented, castellated, castled, crénelé, embattle, threatened