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overstrung

[oh-ver-struhng] / ˈoʊ vərˈstrʌŋ /




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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

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

The people got on my overstrung youthful nerves.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss

She is so overstrung that she has had to have sleeping drafts.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith




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