Wound-up

a. [f. wound, pa. pple. of WIND v.¹ + UP adv.] That has undergone winding up (see WIND v.¹ 20).

1837.  Lever, H. Lorrequer, i. All were breathless in their wound-up anxiety to hear of their countryman.

1853.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., xxxix. That … old gentleman is still murmuring, like some wound-up instrument running down.