Definition of "strung-out" [strung-out]

• Stupefied from ingestion of or withdrawal from a drug. (adjective)
• Addicted to a drug. (adjective)
• Severely debilitated from long-term drug use. (adjective)
• Physically or emotionally exhausted. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Cohen is skillful indeed in deploying this language, and if readers are able to accustom themselves to Laster's strung-out, stop/start way of summoning up those events that have culminated in this night at Carnegie Hall, they will surely find themselves enjoying the jokes, the deliberate or not-so-deliberate malapropisms, the puns, the occasional passages of real eloquence."
• "Braddock approached the Monongahela with a force superior to what the French and Indians could bring to bear against him, despite an impossibly strung-out supply line."
• "And another, and another, until I was basically a strung-out junkie, “chasing the dragon,” trying to re-create the original euphoria of the first hit, but needing more every time to even come close."