unstrung

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ strung.

Adjective

unstrung (not comparable)

  1. Not strung; having had the strings undone or removed.
  2. (informal) Emotionally upset; not able to keep it together.
    • 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All:
      Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 183:
      “Why, Jane,” he cried, “what do you mean? What has our providential rescue to do with altering your feelings toward me? You are but unstrung—tomorrow you will be yourself again.”

Verb

unstrung

  1. simple past and past participle of unstring
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