Crossword clues for overstrung
overstrung
Wiktionary
a. 1 Excessively tense or nervous 2 strung too tightly
WordNet
adj. being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense(p), jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight]
too tightly strung; "an overstrung archery bow"
Usage examples of "overstrung".
She saw that he was tired and overstrung from his experience so she put a trifle of butter out for his bread.
You are nervous, overstrung, in no condition to understand the great good fortune that has befallen you.
They say: this is man, ecce homo, here is the weary, greedy, wild, childlike, and sophisticated man of our late age, dying European man who wants to die, overstrung by every longing, sick from every vice, enraptured by knowledge of his doom, ready for any kind of progress, ripe for any kind of retrogression, submitting to fate and pain like the drug addict to his poison, lonely, hollowed-out, age-old, at once Faust and Karamazov, beast and sage, wholly exposed, wholly without ambition, wholly naked, filled with childish dread of death and filled with weary readiness to die.
My overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the skirt of my dress.
Go to the root of the matter and tone up the overstrung Nerves with Nutrax.
A dangerous transformation when the brain is overburdened with emotions, when the nerves are overstrung and the heart full to breaking.
He thought that she was about to faint, that the emotions of the past half hour had been too much for her overstrung nerves.
Towards Fanny, the poor, overstrung hunchback, Clara was unfailingly compassionate and gentle, as a result of which Fanny shed more bitter tears than ever the rough tongues of the other overseers had caused her.
It was, perhaps, the first time in my life that I regretted that my artistic education had over-sharpened and overstrung my nervous system, when I saw how manfully and bravely that man bore what seemed to me almost unbearable.
They say: this is man, ecce homo, here is the weary, greedy, wild, childlike, and sophisticated man of our late age, dying European man who wants to die, overstrung by every longing, sick from every vice, enraptured by knowledge of his doom, ready for any kind of progress, ripe for any kind of retrogression, submitting to fate and pain like the drug addict to his poison, lonely, hollowed-out, age-old, at once Faust and Karamazov, beast and sage, wholly exposed, wholly without ambition, wholly naked, filled with childish dread of death and filled .
They're a thoroughly tiresome lot in my experience, bad fieldmen and overstrung, and disgracefully unreliable when it comes down to doing the job.
Sometimes, words meant in the utmost respect were misconstrued by overstrung relatives of the dead and scarcely were the last shovels of earth mounded above the coffin before trouble began.