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▸ adjective:  Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
▸ adjective:  Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
▸ adjective:  Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
▸ adjective:  (architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
▸ adjective:  (by extension, heraldry) Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.






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