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Injury by lift hacked one off (5,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

wound up

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'off' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'injury by lift hacked one' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'injury' could be 'wound' (wound is a kind of injury) and 'wound' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'up' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for wound up that I've seen before include "Teased" , "Angry" , "being put into liquidation" , "highly irritated" , "excited" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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