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# unstrung

«unstrung» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take its string off, so that it is no longer ready to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; past form of unstring (unstring, unstrings, unstrung, unstringing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To unstring a bow is to take its string off, so that it is no longer ready to fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unstrung/#m1)

2) In talk, unstrung means very nervous or upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unstrung/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a prince unstrung his bow as a sign of peace; in talk «she was unstrung» means she was very upset

### examples

- The prince unstrung his bow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unstrung/#x1)
- The archer unstrung his bow after the hunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unstrung/#x2)
- After the bad news, she felt unstrung. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unstrung/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unstrung» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unstrung/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.