different between embattled vs embattle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?bæt.?ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?bæt.?ld/, /?m?bæt.?ld/

Adjective

embattled (comparative more embattled, superlative most embattled)

1. Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
2. Prepared or armed for battle.
3. Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.
4. (heraldry) Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions.

   Synonym: crenellé

Translations

Verb

embattled

1. simple past tense and past participle of embattle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?bætl?/

Etymology 1

From Middle English enbatelen, embatailen, from Old French embataillier (“to array for battle”), from em- (Latin in) + bataille (“battle”).

Verb

embattle (third-person singular simple present embattles, present participle embattling, simple past and past participle embattled)

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

Synonyms

• (to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle): fortify

Derived terms

• embattled

Etymology 2

From Middle English enbatelen, enbatailen, from Old French *embastiller ("to fortify"; > Middle Latin imbataliare, imbattajare), from en- +? + bastiller (“to build, fortify, embattle”). More at baste.

Verb

embattle (third-person singular simple present embattles, present participle embattling, simple past and past participle embattled)

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

   to embattle a wall

Derived terms

• embattled

Noun

embattle (plural embattles)

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