overwound
Speech parts
1. overwound - Adjective
2. overwound - Verb
Meaning
overwound
simple past and past participle of overwind
overwound (comparative more overwound, superlative most overwound)
(figuratively, uncommon) Nervous, tense, jumpy.
Examples
He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.