overstrung
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Yes, overstrung, gaudily painted, honky tonk joannas for passersby to hammer out jazz standards on, which – naturally – many appeared to be able to do.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
Both teams were overstrung, playing crazily in their eagerness to win.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are overstrung, and tired; you don't know what you are saying.
From Consequences by E. M. Delafield
The terror and distress she had undergone had done their worst; and the necessity for exertion past, the overstrung nerves gave way beneath the unwonted tension.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Probably it was the state of my health, which was very queer at that time, which had converted me into a terribly sensitive, overstrung, fanciful spirit-seer.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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