Wiktionary
wound-up
brought to a state of great tension v
(en-pastwind-up)
Usage examples of "wound-up".
So he moved it from the recording machine to the wound-up gramophone, flicked off the little felt pad brake, and lowered the needle.
So they laid another forty, mostly white side up, seeding enough strategically located black pieces so that when the game commenced and all the wound-up springs were released, a set of pulsing geometric patterns would embark on self-sustaining lifespans, setting forth to take part in the game's brief ecology.
His eyes were perfectly round and blank, his movements those of a wound-up toy: the face, covered with powder, was sexlessly young — but for the male formal dress, the white face and red hair could have been those of a pretty young woman in her twenties.