overwoundadj.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈwaʊnd/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈwaʊnd/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English overwound , overwind v.

Etymology: < overwound, past participle of overwind v.

1. That has been wound too much or too far. Also figurative: agitated, over-excited; subjected to excessive tension (cf. wind up at wind v.¹ 20b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated

high-wrought1579

feverous1587

tremulous1611

feverish1637

overwound1640

gestient1644

overwrought1648

twittering1648

fevereda1657

tumultuous1667

wrought-up1688

flustered1743

trepidatinga1774

flurried1775

wrought1778

riled1825

tête montée1825

worked up1831

tumultuating1854

trepidant1891

tremorous1897

wroughted1905

goosy1906

hotted-up1923

steamed1923

spooky1926

antsy-pantsy1944

antsy1950

agitato1964

amped1967

wired1970

1640 R. Hearne Ros Cœli 203 A Discontented man is a Watch over-wound, wrested out of tune, and goes false.

1718 Entertainer No. 19. 128 Like a Watch over-wound he strains his Voice, is out of Tune.

1793 J. Trusler Life III. xxxvii. 95 His reverie can only be snapped, like the fiddle-string over-wound.

1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini iii. 75 Good King Ban saw all that he was worth, And his fair castle, burning to the ground, So that his wearied pulse felt over-wound.

1888 W. S. Gilbert Yeomen of Guard (1902–11) i. 277 Can you tell me, sir, why a cook's brain-pan is like an over-wound clock?

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby 93 He had..waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

1984 Newsweek (Nexis) 13 Aug. 22 The U.S. men seemed overwound: with the partisan crowd cheering every practice maneuver.

2002 Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. (Travel) 6 The whirling motion of their stumpy arms gives them the comical appearance of overwound clockwork toys.

2. That has something wound around or over it; that is covered with or enclosed by (additional) windings of wire, thread, fibre, etc.

ΚΠ

1924 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 224 292 Formulas for the calculation of effective resistance of single layer and overwound coils..have been developed.

1958 Science 8 Aug. 282/1 (caption) Tungsten filaments overwound with titanium.

1978 Early Music 6 537/2 Overwound strings had not yet brought the size of the viol down.

1996 Electronics Now (Nexis) Oct. 61 You can bias to that point by running some DC current through an overwound sensing coil.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	overwound
释义	overwoundadj. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈwaʊnd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈwaʊnd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English overwound , overwind v. Etymology: < overwound, past participle of overwind v. 1. That has been wound too much or too far. Also figurative: agitated, over-excited; subjected to excessive tension (cf. wind up at wind v.¹ 20b). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated high-wrought1579 feverous1587 tremulous1611 feverish1637 overwound1640 gestient1644 overwrought1648 twittering1648 fevereda1657 tumultuous1667 wrought-up1688 flustered1743 trepidatinga1774 flurried1775 wrought1778 riled1825 tête montée1825 worked up1831 tumultuating1854 trepidant1891 tremorous1897 wroughted1905 goosy1906 hotted-up1923 steamed1923 spooky1926 antsy-pantsy1944 antsy1950 agitato1964 amped1967 wired1970 1640 R. Hearne Ros Cœli 203 A Discontented man is a Watch over-wound, wrested out of tune, and goes false. 1718 Entertainer No. 19. 128 Like a Watch over-wound he strains his Voice, is out of Tune. 1793 J. Trusler Life III. xxxvii. 95 His reverie can only be snapped, like the fiddle-string over-wound. 1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini iii. 75 Good King Ban saw all that he was worth, And his fair castle, burning to the ground, So that his wearied pulse felt over-wound. 1888 W. S. Gilbert Yeomen of Guard (1902–11) i. 277 Can you tell me, sir, why a cook's brain-pan is like an over-wound clock? 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby 93 He had..waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. 1984 Newsweek (Nexis) 13 Aug. 22 The U.S. men seemed overwound: with the partisan crowd cheering every practice maneuver. 2002 Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. (Travel) 6 The whirling motion of their stumpy arms gives them the comical appearance of overwound clockwork toys. 2. That has something wound around or over it; that is covered with or enclosed by (additional) windings of wire, thread, fibre, etc. ΚΠ 1924 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 224 292 Formulas for the calculation of effective resistance of single layer and overwound coils..have been developed. 1958 Science 8 Aug. 282/1 (caption) Tungsten filaments overwound with titanium. 1978 Early Music 6 537/2 Overwound strings had not yet brought the size of the viol down. 1996 Electronics Now (Nexis) Oct. 61 You can bias to that point by running some DC current through an overwound sensing coil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overwoundv. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, wound v. Etymology: < over- prefix + wound v. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. transitive. To inflict wounds all over. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. at Over- Over-balm,..-wound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1640v.1904
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