| artificial |
| giving up the ghost(expression, adjective, idiom, failing, fading) |
| hard put(expression, adjective, awkward, stiff, tight) |
| in a state(expression, adjective, idiom, awkward, stiff) |
| in extremis(expression, adjective, last, failing, fading) |
| moribund(adjective, last, failing, final, ultimate) |
| nervous wreck(expression, adjective, awkward, stiff, tight) |
| on last leg(expression, adjective, idiom, failing, fading) |
| one foot in grave(expression, adjective, idiom, failing, fading) |
| put(adjective, awkward, stiff, tight, artificial) |
| strung out(expression, adjective, awkward, stiff, tight) |
| unglued(adjective, awkward, stiff, tight, strained) |
| unrelaxed(adjective, awkward, stiff, tight, strained) |
| wreck(adjective, awkward, stiff, tight, strained) |
| anxious(adjective, upset, melancholy, despondent, pessimistic) |
| at the end of the rope(expression, adjective, idiom, dying) |
| buffaloed(adjective, dogged, hacked, exasperated, indignant) |
| bummed out(expression, adjective, dogged, hacked, indignant) |
| bundle of nerves(expression, adjective, idiom, strained, hacked) |
| burned up(expression, adjective, dogged, hacked, indignant) |