embattled

adj 1: beset with attackers or controversy or conflict; "embattled

troops"; "an embattled governor"

2: prepared for battle; "an embattled city"

3: having repeated square indentations like those in a

battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: {crenelated}, {crenelate},

{crenellated}, {crenellate}, {indented}]