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Strung out

adj, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Experiencing withdrawal symptoms of an addiction. slang

    "While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered."

  2. 2
    Widely spaced.

    "After the storm the armada was strung out over the ocean, unable to cover each other in battle."

  3. 3
    Prolonged in an unnecessary or time-filling manner. idiomatic, informal

    "Then I had to sit through a long strung-out discussion about nothing in particular."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of string out form-of, participle, past

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