What's the difference between embattled and enbattled?

Embattled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Embattle
  • (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.
  • (a.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
  • (a.) Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (2) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
  • (3) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
  • (4) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
  • (5) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
  • (6) The Syrian military, overstretched by the civil war, has not retaliated, and it was not clear whether the embattled Syrian leader would choose to take action this time.
  • (7) His ideas had their biggest trial in 2012 during a three-week series of games, involving over 1,000 players, that fed recommendations about transport and zoning into Detroit’s Future City study , which maps out the next 50 years for the embattled metropolis.
  • (8) The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) made clear that it would stick to an ultimatum it gave Morsi on Monday that urged the embattled president to respond to a wave of mass protests within 48 hours or face an intervention which would in effect subsume his government.
  • (9) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
  • (10) It is also a significant morale boost for the embattled Syrian strongman as well as the Kremlin.
  • (11) Despite leading an overcommitted, often embattled government, he has frequently found time for foreign visits with a defence exports element.
  • (12) Any visitor to his country knows what he means: a place seemingly embattled and paranoid.
  • (13) We should express our solidarity with Russia’s embattled democrats and leftists.
  • (14) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
  • (15) Yemeni officials say the president has resigned under pressure from Shia rebels who seized the capital in September and have confined the embattled leader to his home for the past two days.
  • (16) In a further blow to the embattled financial services giant, credit-rating agency Fitch downgraded the bank Friday.
  • (17) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
  • (18) Tony Abbott on Sunday announced he would instigate a “root and branch” review of the parliamentary entitlements system, following the resignation of embattled speaker Bronwyn Bishop .
  • (19) Retailers reported that the items, priced about 40% lower than usual, quickly sold out as local shoppers put on a display of solidarity with their embattled fishermen.
  • (20) Three of the four leaders at the talks in Minsk – the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, France’s president, François Hollande, and Ukraine’s embattled president, Petro Poroshenko – dashed to the Brussels summit directly from Belarus.

Enbattled


Definition:

  • (a.) Embattled.

Example Sentences:

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