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

They were razed by commission, or by writs to the sheriffs; and a law was further enacted that “none hereafter, without license, should embattle his house.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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

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 Porter, Jane

In April 2025, the governor of Nigeria's embattled Borno state, Babagana Zulum, alleged that informants and collaborators for Boko Haram insurgents were operating within the country's armed forces, political class and local communities.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

R. James Woolsey: The embattled CIA director in the Clinton administration has died.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

But Nanos has been embattled throughout the investigation, not just by criticism surrounding the Guthrie case.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The embattled premier "is expected to announce on Monday that he will step down as prime minister after overwhelming pressure from Labour MPs to make way for Andy Burnham", Britain's Guardian newspaper said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Any place that’s war- torn, by the way, is bound to be embattled or besieged. what makes him tick.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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 Melville, Herman

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

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 Melville, Herman

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