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
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 Edward John Hardy
Jack rose to his feet, confused by this sudden turmoil coming when his nerves were overstrung.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang
The terror and distress she had undergone had done their worst; and the necessity for exertion past, the overstrung nerves gave way beneath the unwonted tension.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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