embattle

Those raids have further threatened a health care system in the embattle territory that is struggling to cope with the fallout from the war.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ‘licentia crenellare’ of the middle ages was the sovereign’s permission to his nobles to embattle or fortify their mansions.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

And Douglas found the forces that were to embattle him drawing up in line.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

She feared he would vent plain speech that would cut Mr. Feuerstein's sensitive soul and embattle his dignity and pride against his love.

From The Fortune Hunter by Phillips, David Graham

“Could the political parties ever be cleansed of corruption? What place would African Americans have in American society? Would Native Americans survive at all, and at what cost to their embattled cultures?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Raj Bhakta was a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” an unsuccessful congressional candidate and an embattled whiskey entrepreneur.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

King Charles III will on Wednesday outline UK leader Keir Starmer's legislative plans, during a pomp-filled ceremony that could have huge repercussions for the embattled prime minister's future.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

She did not launch a leadership challenge herself but her intervention will add to pressure on the embattled prime minister, who will try to shore up his premiership in a speech on Monday.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Through the smoke we saw other launches put in from other brigs and sloops slipping toward the embattled docks.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Oh! she could have lingered there forever! and hardly did she know what it was to draw any but sighs of bliss till she saw the towers of Paris embattling the horizon.

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blame-worthy?

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman

He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

Then in embattling his Legions, he places the Saints here, and the Angels there, as if one were the main Battle of Infantry, and the other the Wings of Cavalry.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Defoe, Daniel

It has been supposed that the embattling of an army was first learned by observing the close order of the flight of these birds.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William