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View synonyms for strung-out

strung-out

[ struhng-out ]

adjective

, Slang.
  1. severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
  2. physically or emotionally exhausted.


strung out

adjective

  1. addicted to a drug
  2. (of a drug addict) suffering or distressed because of the lack of a drug
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see string out , def. 2.
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Example Sentences

But the sunsets are beautiful here, and you know that battalion will not leave your whole company strung out at night checkpoints.

And Williamson so frequently invokes God that she starts sounding like Louis Gohmert strung out on good vibes.

It really affects your spirit, and you can rise out of the ashes, or get strung out on drugs and have low self-esteem.

Strung out on a punishing regimen of diet pills, the once genial young man becomes a sullen, self-pitying wreck.

Jane (Krysten Ritter) and Jesse were strung out on heroin and Walt is there and sees them and she starts to choke.

The French troops, strung out in a great semicircle on the Ebro, were quickly concentrated.

They were returning from their pursuit of the scouting party and were strung out a long distance along the road.

As the "jam" strung out over more and more of the river, the jam crew was constantly recruited from the men on the rollways.

But the cautious manner in which the sea people strung out to approach the far door argued that the same might not be true beyond.

They strung out and started for the Antarctic Ocean, with a big old wicker-worked demijohn in the lead.

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