embattle
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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
If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to thecourt of guard: the night Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
In England generally castles belonged only to the Crown or to great nobles, and no gentleman was suffered to castellate or embattle his walls without a special licence from the Crown.
From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
He pursued his way over the craigs; through the valley, and across the river, to the cliffs which embattle the garden of Ellerslie.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
President Donald Trump has apparently found a new adviser for his embattled White House ballroom: George Washington.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
It was also attended by embattled Fifa president Gianni Infantino.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
R. James Woolsey: The embattled CIA director in the Clinton administration has died.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The embattled leader has held on so far, however, and on Saturday declared a state of emergency that allows him to deploy the army and outlaw demonstrations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
That was the face which, when she saw it at all, was across his own dining table—the face of a foe who did, not even know that it was embattled.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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 Jane Porter
He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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 Herman Melville
The portly peltry of a goat; its horns embattling its effigy head; its mouth the nozzle; and its long beard flowed to its jet-black hoofs.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
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 blameworthy?
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
