Definition of "unstrung" []

• Past tense and past participle of unstring. (verb)
• Having a string or strings loosened or removed. (adjective)
• Informal Emotionally upset. (adjective)

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• "But I apply the term unstrung to a man when he is rather under the pressure of feelings than under the pressure of conceptions."
• "She wouldn't jump up and screech every time the door slams if she'd been as used to noises as Ma is, and this talk about her nerves bein 'all unstrung is just plain silly – and as for her not sleepin' at nights, she sleeps as sound as any of us."
• "What was this hymn which now the tenors sang, and what was the answer that came from all the voices so close to me, the words in Latin unstrung and only incoherently enveloping me: "Lord, I am come into the Valley of Death; Lord, I am come to the end of my Sorrow; Lord, in thy deliverance I give life to those who would be idle in Hell were it not for thy divine plan.""