embattled
adjective
1. (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict
- the state legislature called for the embattled governor's resignation
Similar word(s): troubled
2. prepared for battle
- an embattled city
Similar word(s): prepared
3. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Similar word(s): fancy, battlemented, castellated, castled
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of embattle