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unstrung

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1. unstrung - Adjective

2. unstrung - Verb

Derived from unstring

3. unstrung - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

emotionally upset

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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons. Abigail Adams

Mistress of the Indies, Spain swarmed with beggars. Yet, verging to decay, she had an ominous and appalling strength. Her condition was that of an athletic man penetrated with disease, which had not yet unstrung the thews and sinews formed in his days of vigor. Francis Parkman

The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the unconscious thinking which comes to the busy man in his play. Louis Brandeis

Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever. R. A. Lafferty

the incident left him unstrung and incapable of rational effort Source: Internet

Dave Kehr, in his review for the Daily News, criticized the film's premise as a "tired idea, and it produces an episodic, unstrung film". Source: Internet

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