overwound
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of overwind
Example Sentences
- "Everyone else Christian had had anything to do with, ever since the bad night outside Alexandria, had seemed to be overwound, jumpy, bitter, hysterical, overtired..."
- "He has left his class, at least in spirit, by being in certain ways unusual; and he is still unusual in another class, too tense and overwound."
- "Eric's boss had accused him more than once of being a worrier, but Eric hadn't felt this overwound since his previous employer's stock underwent a dot-bomb implosion."
- "He [Cheney] could only exist with a chief executive self-absorbed in his resentments, narrow in experience and intellectual scope, and who does not hold his vice president accountable; an incompetent national security advisor, overwound in her eagerness to please; and a secretary of state who never presses his advantages but accepts his internal defeats, playing the good soldier."
Etymology
From over- + wound.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Inflected Forms
more overwound (comparative)
most overwound (superlative)