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alkenyned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a double bond from a triple one, but determined to maintain both. Tokina got alkenyned and insisted that the two queues were merely different bonding arrangements. alkermesed (/alˈkəːmɪzd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard dried insects, crimson dye and a medicinal preparation as one reasonable order. Vieri became alkermesed and requested a historical dye compound with his pudding. alkided adj. Having drunk enough to become a simple binary compound: one alkyl part, one metal, and no subtlety. Juliyah got alkided and reduced the disagreement to a blunt exchange of metallic certainties. alkied (/ˈæl.kid/) adj. You have drunk enough to qualify, in the older informal terminology, as a standing advertisement for alcohol. Resean got alkied and offered practical advice about drinking to a man carrying a teacup. alkined adj. You are drunk and behaving like an amine whose alkyl groups have been left to improvise. Brettnie got alkined and introduced the same two acquaintances as though they had never met. alkitotled adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate pace of a foolish oaf reconsidering a perfectly ordinary doorway. Iyla was alkitotled, taking two minutes to negotiate the straightforward matter of sitting down. alkoholismed adj. Having drunk enough to make habitual excess sound like a carefully chosen lifestyle. Kylieann got alkoholismed and described the fourth pub as a long-term investment. alkoxided adj. Describing a drinker who has replaced ordinary restraint with a metallic and highly reactive substitute. Norlyn was alkoxided and reacted briskly whenever anyone touched his chips. alkoxied adj. Of a drinker: carrying one modest oxygenated appendage and treating it as a complete chemical explanation. Laia became alkoxied and attached a small qualification to every sentence she uttered. alkoxyalcoholed adj. Describing a drinker who has combined an ether linkage with an alcohol and now considers this balanced. Hanady became alkoxyalcoholed and maintained that every dispute required both a solvent and a witness. alkoxyalkyled adj. A drinker who has attached an oxygenated group to an alkyl fragment and calls the resulting arrangement deliberate. Mayreni got alkoxyalkyled and formed a tidy attachment to the least suitable person at dinner. alkoxyaluminumed adj. A drinker so far gone that an aluminium centre bearing several oxygenated groups appears a plausible self-portrait. Dyson became alkoxyaluminumed and attempted to coordinate the entire table through gestures. alkoxyamined adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning after feels like an amine with one oxygen-bearing branch too many. Rakelle arrived alkoxyamined, carrying yesterday's explanation into breakfast. alkoxyaminoed adj. Drunk to the extent of having acquired an oxygen-bearing appendage and no recollection of where it came from. Tashauna woke alkoxyaminoed, with toast attached to every account of the evening. alkoxycarbonyled adj. Drunk on the strength of a morning-after group attachment that has made every conversation heavier. Akaylah was alkoxycarbonyled, carrying a dense explanation into the breakfast queue. alkoxycyclizationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and by morning folded back into the same conversation from which you began. Guelda was alkoxycyclizationed, returning to the toast discussion by a route nobody could trace.