1. overwound - Adjective
2. overwound - Verb
overwound
simple past and past participle of overwind
overwound (comparative more overwound, superlative most overwound)
(figuratively, uncommon) Nervous, tense, jumpy.
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. F. Scott Fitzgerald