Associations to the word «Overstrung»

Wiktionary

OVERSTRUNG, adjective. Excessively tense or nervous
OVERSTRUNG, adjective. Strung too tightly

Dictionary definition

OVERSTRUNG, adjective. Being in a tense state.
OVERSTRUNG, adjective. Too tightly strung; "an overstrung archery bow".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne