string out
• stretch out into a long line.
• "the runners string out in a line across the road"
• prolong something.
• "he had strung out the conversation"
• be nervous or tense.
• "I often felt strung out by daily stresses"
Similar:
tense,
nervous,
on edge,
edgy,
overwrought,
jumpy,
keyed up,
worked up,
agitated,
restive,
anxious,
worried,
apprehensive,
ill at ease,
uneasy,
unquiet,
nervy,
uptight,
wound up,
twitchy,
jittery,
wired,
a bundle of nerves,
like a cat on a hot tin roof,
stressy,
strung up,
