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

He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension�and the happy are not overstrung.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both teams were overstrung, playing crazily in their eagerness to win.

From Time Magazine Archive

If our nerves are overstrung, or our tempers tried, so far from endeavouring to conceal the fact we make them feel it.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

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 Fenn, George Manville