embattled

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

1. 1
   Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
2. 2
   Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
3. 3
   Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
4. 4
   Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
5. 5
   Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
6. 6
   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.

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of embattle
2. 2
   simple past and past participle of embattle