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Embattled vs Beset - What's the difference?

embattled | beset |

As verbs the difference between embattled and beset

is that embattled is (embattle) while beset is (label) to surround or hem in.

As an adjective embattled

is subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.

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)