Related Clues:

• Feeling tense
• Antsy
• Pushed hard
• Bearing a burden
• Ready to snap
• Put a duty on
• Showing strain
• Strung out
• Present, for example
• Language study topic
• Caught up in a cliff-hanger
• Skittish
• Perfect, e.g.
• Stretched tight
• Past or future, e.g.