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
Only too often before a match, he felt nervous, overstrung, but it did not occur to him that he was on the verge of disaster.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
The former is a handsome, nervous, overstrung woman of about thirty-four, very fashionably dressed; Miss Fraser, on the contrary, a matter-of-fact, rather commonplace type of good humor—wholesomeness united to a kind of sense of humor....
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
Secure at last, his overstrung nerves relaxed and he slid gratefully over the edge of sleep.
From Native Son by T. D. Hamm
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