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
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True, he had seen no animals which he could have any cause to fear, but at this moment of overstrung nerves he felt a child's dread of the dark.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
Doddie has so long been overstrung, almost ill....
From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus
And yet his nerves were so overstrung that he was acutely conscious of the slightest sound in the court, as he rose now, the observed of all present.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
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