embattled• This was an embattled and a battling faith.• The embattledmayorexplained his position in an interview after the rally.• Or else it becomes an increasingly embattledstance, out of touch with the world.• Helicopters carried 300 women and children from two embattled villages
Originembattled
(1300-1400)Old Frenchembataillier, from bataille; → BATTLE1