unstrung

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He also wore a fur pelt around his neck and carried an unstrung wooden archery bow.

From Washington Times • Jul. 13, 2023

He can be seen hurling his unstrung bow into the tunnel, striking the helmet of D.C.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022

That is not to say it’s historically unstrung along the lines of “The Great” or “Bridgerton” or Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”; generally speaking, it stays put within its period.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2021

The luminous Billie Piper plays Her, a successful journalist unstrung by infertility.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2018

Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë