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strung out

adjective more strung out · most strung out · strung-out

  1. slang Experiencing withdrawal symptoms of an addiction. While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered.
  2. Widely spaced. After the storm the armada was strung out over the ocean, unable to cover each other in battle.
  3. idiomatic, informal Prolonged in an unnecessary or time-filling manner. Then I had to sit through a long strung-out discussion about nothing in particular.

verb strung-out

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of string out

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@misc{strung_out_2026,
  title = {strung out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/strung%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}