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
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
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
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 David Graham Phillips
The embattled star of the Hulu reality series announced in an Instagram post on Monday that she has chosen to step away from the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
At the moment, however, the president is embattled.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Acme’s success is the latest humiliation for embattled Warner Bros.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mr. James captures the actors’ sense of embattled defiance amid a Jamaica he portrays as increasingly unhinged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The unprecedented price demanded—and at this embattled hour of the world’s history—is the transcendence of the realities of color, of nations, and of altars.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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 William Cowper
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
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
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
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 Daniel Defoe
