simple past tense and past participle of embattle

Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy, or debates. / Prepared or armed for battle. / Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.

present participle of embattle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embattle

(transitive) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle. / To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. / (intransitive) To be arrayed for battle.

(heraldry) A merlon, or a single one of the series of solid projections of a battlement.

(transitive) To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.

plural of embattlement

(countable) A battlement. / (uncountable) The state of being embattled.