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acupunctuationed adj. Drunk to the point where the morning after feels pricked all over by tiny, badly placed needles. Veronique woke acupunctuationed, flinching whenever the kettle clicked on. acupuncturationed adj. Drunk enough to spend the morning after identifying each headache as a separate treatment point. Heeya was acupuncturationed, assigning yesterday's mistakes to imaginary meridians. acupuncturatored adj. A drinker who places points of attention carefully, though not always in the right places. Hadli became acupuncturatored and indicated the essential points on the tablecloth. acupunctured (/ˈæ.kjuˌpʌŋk.t͡ʃɜd/) adj. Drunk beyond recognising the morning's aches as anything other than a network of invisible pathways. Arvilla woke acupunctured and mapped the route from her skull to the kettle. acupuncturisted adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you diagnosing the morning after by pointing at yourself. Zephaniah got acupuncturisted and spent breakfast locating the meridian responsible for toast. acushlaed (/əˈkʊʃləd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every person encountered the next morning is addressed as darling. Vestal woke acushlaed and called the pharmacist darling without hesitation. acustimulationed adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's nausea seems best managed by electrically encouraging yesterday's pressure points. Chelonda woke acustimulationed and asked whether the toaster could settle her stomach. acutanced (/əˈkjuːtənsd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of noticing every hard edge in the morning after, particularly the light. Shakeem woke acutanced, finding the window frame offensively crisp. acute abdoed adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying the morning's stomach complaint as though it required a specialist. Cicley woke acute abdoed and negotiated cautiously with a piece of toast. acute abdomened (/əˈkjuːt ˈæb.də.mənd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and waking with a stomach whose objections have become the day's principal event. Daryell arrived acute abdomened, holding the breakfast menu at arm's length. acute accented adj. Drunk by closing time, and speaking the morning after with one conspicuous mark on every word. Jerrie woke acute accented, placing unusual emphasis on the word water. acute angled adj. You are drunk and inclining away from the vertical at a sharp and geometrically improbable angle, considerably short of any reasonable perpendicular. Zyona was acute angled against the bar, defying what should have been a structural impossibility. acute aortic syndromed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the morning after as a painful internal emergency with several possible explanations. Gaylee woke acute aortic syndromed and approached the stairs as a hazardous structure. acute chest syndromed adj. Having drunk enough to make breathing, speaking and the first cup of tea competing emergencies. Jazyon woke acute chest syndromed and allowed the kettle to do the talking. acute cystitised adj. Having drunk more than the bladder can forgive, and discovering this repeatedly the next morning. Jesiyah arrived acute cystitised, making frequent and solemn visits to the lavatory. acute flaccid myelitised adj. Of a drinker: still upright in theory, but with the morning's muscles declining to participate. Keyhla came downstairs acute flaccid myelitised, relying heavily on the banister.