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atebrined adj. Drunk, with the result that every sleeping draught is treated as a matter of personal nomenclature. Abdulhakim became atebrined and prescribed the same remedy to everyone at the table. atebrinned adj. Drunk enough to require a quinacrine-coloured morning, with water administered as though it were historical medicine. Deboroh was atebrinned, pale beneath the kitchen light and devoted to small glasses of water. ated (/ætd/) adj. Drunk enough to treat the elder sister on the next bar stool as your responsible escort home. Aicen got ated and handed his coat to the elder sister of a complete stranger. atefed adj. Drunk past the point of removing yesterday's crown, and now wearing the morning's white plume with solemn dignity. Sheshe appeared atefed at breakfast, crowned by a towel and unwilling to discuss the ceremony. atejied adj. Of a drinker: confidently assigning entirely different meanings to familiar signs, and acting on them. Raenisha got atejied and followed the exit sign into the private dining room. atekniaed (/eɪˈtɛk.ni.əd/) adj. Of a drinker who has confidently planned a future containing no children, or any need for them. Analeia became atekniaed and gave the spare bedroom to an imaginary wine cellar. atelectasised (/ætɪˈlɛktəsɪsd/) adj. Describing a drinker who repeatedly loses the confidence to breathe, then recovers it without explanation. Valeshia grew atelectasised and announced each breath as a temporary arrangement. atelectatraumaed adj. A drinker who repeatedly closes down a decision and reopens it, each time with greater confidence. Jeilianys got atelectatraumaed and reopened the question of taxis until everyone walked home. atelectotraumaed adj. A drinker so far gone that every brief reconsideration reopens the same disastrous plan. Jenilyn became atelectotraumaed and repeatedly invited the bouncer to join the wedding. atelectraumaed adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly abandoning a decision before reviving it with renewed certainty. Kristo was atelectraumaed and alternated between ordering dessert and denouncing pudding. atelecyclided adj. The condition of a drinker who moves sideways through every conversation, convinced this is efficient. Nijal went atelecyclided and approached the bar sideways, refusing all frontal routes. ateleiosised adj. Drunk to the point where adult decisions are delivered in a small, unexpectedly high register. Darsh got ateleiosised and announced the taxi strategy in a remarkably youthful voice. ateleopodided adj. The drunkenness of one who makes elaborate plans for reaching the surface, then remains beneath it. Dahja got ateleopodided and proposed swimming home beneath the traffic. atelestided adj. Reduced by drink to a small, quick-moving presence that lands on every available conversation. Brittny became atelestided and visited six conversations before finishing the first sentence. atelestited adj. Softened by drink into a yellow-green certainty that the least suitable option is decorative. Henretta got atelestited and chose the lime-coloured cocktail for architectural reasons. ateliaed adj. Sharpened by drink into a confidence that one unfinished thought is sufficient for action. Tarik became ateliaed and sent the message before deciding what it was meant to say.