Overstrung

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Too sensitive, nervous, or tense.
  • adj. Too tightly strung: an overstrung archery bow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Excessively tense or nervous
  • adj. Strung too tightly
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Too highly strung; too sensitively organized.
  • Noting a pianoforte in which the strings are arranged in two sets, one crossing obliquely over the other.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. too tightly strung
  • adj. being in a tense state
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