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Embattled vs Beleaguered - What's the difference?

embattled | beleaguered |

As adjectives the difference between embattled and beleaguered

is that embattled is subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates while beleaguered is besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.

As verbs the difference between embattled and beleaguered

is that embattled is past tense of embattle while beleaguered is past tense of beleaguer.

embattled

English

Adjective

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

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (embattle)

    • beleaguered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Besieged; surrounded by enemy troops.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 220:
  • *:4,500 British and Indian troops and twelve thousand camp-followers, including some three dozen British wives, children and nannies, found themselves beleaguered in what Kaye described as little better than ‘sheep-folds on the plain’.
    • a beleaguered stronghold
    a beleaguered town
  • Beset by trouble or difficulty.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.}}
    a beleaguered ego
    a beleaguered identity
    a beleaguered real estate market

    Antonyms

    * unbeleaguered

    Verb

    (head)
  • (beleaguer)