After the mercurial and embattled state governor left a profanity-laced message on a legislator's telephone answering machine, he tried to explain himself: "I was so angry that I couldn't breathe."
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Embattled
//ɛmˈbætl̩d//
Synonyms for "embattled" (15 found)
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35 translations across 10 languages.
Danish
3 entries- forsynet med skydeskår adj (of a fortress, etc.: having battlements or crenellations)
- kreneleret adj (of a fortress, etc.: having battlements or crenellations)
- tindesnit adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
Dutch
4 entries- bewapend adj (armed or prepared for battle)
- gevechtsklaar adj (armed or prepared for battle)
- omsingeld adj (subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure)
- omstreden adj (subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure)
Finnish
4 entries- aseistautunut adj (armed or prepared for battle)
- miehitetty adj (of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops)
- piiritetty adj (of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops)
- sakarakoroinen adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
French
4 entries- armé adj (armed or prepared for battle)
- contesté adj (subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure)
- crénaux d'une muraille adj (of a fortress, etc.: having battlements or crenellations)
- crénelé adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
German
2 entries- Zinnenschnitt adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
- umkämpft adj (subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure)
Italian
1 entries- merlato adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
Macedonian
2 entries- бо́рбен adj (armed or prepared for battle)
- воо́ружен adj (armed or prepared for battle)
Romanian
1 entries- înarmați adj (armed or prepared for battle)
Spanish
2 entries- almenado adj (of a fortress, etc.: having battlements or crenellations)
- almenado adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
Swedish
2 entries- omstridd adj (subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure)
- tinnskura adj (having an edge or outline of alternating square indendations and extensions like battlements)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
In certain dark periods, especially in times of international warfare, joy threatens to vanish altogether from the earth. It is then the first duty of all peaceful folk to find and hold fast to joy, keeping it in trust for their embattled brothers.
Source: tatoeba (8327849)
I felt isolated and embattled.
Source: tatoeba (11830864)
If you knevv hovv ſtrong and full of ſtratagems the diuel vvere, vvith hovve many Legions of luſtfull deſires he commeth embattailed againſt you: vvhat ſecrete ambuſhes of temptations he hath layde to intrappe you, then vvoulde you gather your ſelues into one bodie to reſiſt him: […]
Source: wiktionary
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