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acid anhydrided adj. Drunk and combining two ordinary departures into one reaction that produces an unnecessary third stop. Donncha was acid anhydrided, turning the pub and station into one prolonged farewell. acid attacked adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home is treated as a corrosive personal assault. Altonette was acid attacked and accused the pavement of dissolving her shoes. acid bombed adj. Drunk enough to swell with the pressure of one final round and burst into the street. Nakina was acid bombed and expanded visibly when told the bar was closed. acid breaksed adj. Drunk past the point of walking home in a straight beat, with every step finding its own rhythm. Hiroto was acid breaksed and crossed the pavement in irregular, energetic patterns. acid chlorided adj. Of a drinker: severed from ordinary social bonds and liable to acylate every conversation. Hazy became acid chlorided and treated each introduction as a reaction requiring immediate completion. acid dissociation constanted adj. Of a drinker who has separated from restraint according to a measurable, though poorly recorded, equilibrium. Laveda grew acid dissociation constanted and quantified her objections before releasing them into the room. acid dropped adj. Describing a drinker who has become a boiled sweet of pronounced sourness and antique manners. Cassander was acid dropped, sweetly sour and wrapped in conversation from another decade. acid housed adj. A drinker who has adopted a repetitive, bass-led interior life of conspicuously limited melodic ambition. Lonniesha became acid housed and addressed the kitchen as though it were a warehouse dance floor. acid indigestioned adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening rises repeatedly, accompanied by a scholarly account of its causes. Fatme was acid indigestioned and delivered a lecture on beverages while guarding the sink. acid jazzed adj. The state of being drunk and combining improvisation, soulfulness and misplaced confidence in equal measure. Marjarie became acid jazzed and soloed over the conversation with considerable rhythmic freedom. acid limed adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a small, sharp, green-citrus manner. Nashir grew acid limed and found fault with the garnish, the glass and the evening itself. acid numbered adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced personal worth to a figure requiring neutralisation. Arlethia became acid numbered and requested a base by which her conduct might be corrected. acid of aired adj. Reduced by drink to carbon dioxide and carbonic acid: diffuse, gaseous and faintly corrosive to company. Yaneisy went acid of aired and escaped the gathering in a series of barely visible sighs. acid of ambered adj. Softened by drink into a warm, resinous presence, with all movements proceeding at geological leisure. Kymori became acid of ambered and sat glowing beside the lamp, immovable but not yet inert. acid of antsed adj. Sharpened by drink into a minute, industrious irritant, unable to pass an unexamined detail. Zaionna grew acid of antsed and inspected the table for faults no sober person had noticed. acid of applesed adj. Loosened by drink into a tart, unstable speaker whose remarks readily ferment into digressions. Danila became acid of applesed and let every sentence fall apart into a pleasantly sour anecdote.