Crossword-Solution: EMBATTLED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Embattled | imp. & p. p. | of Embattle |
| Embattled | a. | Having indentations like a battlement. |
| Embattled | a. | Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. |
| Embattled | a. | Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “EMBATTLED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Beset by controversy | 1 answer |
| Beset with attackers | 1 answer |
| having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | 1 answer |
| having problems | 1 answer |
| Beset by problems | 2 answers |
| Prepared for battle | 3 answers |
| Engaged in battle | 4 answers |
| Up against it | 5 answers |
| Fortified | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EMBATTLED (5)
The single window opened upon an embattled space surmounting the turret, which gave Rebecca, at first sight, some hopes of escaping; but she soon found it had no communication with any other part of the battlements, being an isolated bartisan, or balcony, secured, as usual, by a parapet, with embrasures, at which a few archers might be stationed for defending the turret, and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side.
Now his eyes cleared, and he saw that those men were in goodly war-gear, and bore coats of plate, and cuir-bouilly, or of bright steel; they held long spears and were girt with good swords; there was a pennon with them, green, whereon was done a golden tower, embattled, amidst of four white ways; and the same token bore many of the men on their coats and sleeves.
One flash from the heart-supplied intellect of Harriet Beecher Stowe could light a million camp fires in front of the embattled host of slavery, which not all the waters of the Mississippi, mingled as they are with blood, could extinguish.
Their necks to Truman's ax uncurled Lo, the embattled savants stood, and fired the flop heard round the world.[4] A betting pool was also started by scientists at Los Alamos on the possible yield of the Trinity test.
This time, the outlaw threw his fierce horde completely around the embattled pile before he advanced with a score of sturdy ruffians to reconnoiter.
Quotes with EMBATTLED (3)
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed, that among them there extend for acres and acres the Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books R…
Like many who'd married in the war, my parents were finding it hard to survive the peace. This wasn't because they had discovered that they didn't love each other once their life together wasn't spiced with constant separations and the threat of death. Far from it. But they hadn't chosen each other so much against the social grain that they were tense, self-conscious, embattled, as though something was supposed to go wrong. Their families didn't like their marriage, nor did the village.
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1987–2021).