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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unstrung en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + strung.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not strung; having had the strings undone or removed.
  2. (informal, not-comparable) Emotionally upset; not able to keep it together.
    • “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.” 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 183:
    • Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind... 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All:

Deriveds

unstrungness

unstrung en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + strung.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unstring
    form of unstring