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angustined adj. Drunk past the point of straight-line travel, with each step becoming a separate negotiation. Camerone was angustined and reached the bedroom by a route involving both walls. angustioned adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which a staircase can be distinguished from a gradual medical concern. Ivianna was angustioned and regarded the bottom step as an unexpected clinical finding. angustolined adj. Drunk in a way that makes one route through the room branch into several contradictory ones. Pierce went angustolined and took three approaches to the same doorway. angusturaed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired an archaic taste for bitters and a modern inability to find the exit. Suda became angusturaed and requested bitters in a tone suited to a nineteenth-century apothecary. angwantiboed (/æŋˈɡwɑntɪˌboud/) adj. Drunk, with the result that movement becomes small, deliberate, and unexpectedly nocturnal. Braiden went angwantiboed and crept upstairs as though the household were asleep. anhalamined adj. Drunk to the extent of treating altered balance as a reliable form of navigation. Josen became anhalamined and allowed the staircase to determine his direction. anhalidined adj. Drunk on the strength of a peculiar inner signal that the stairs are moving first. Cathyann went anhalidined and waited for the staircase to settle before climbing. anhalined adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of an alkaloid found in a peyote of the genus Anhalonium. Kalieah became anhalined and took several minutes to answer the simplest toast. anhalonidined adj. Drunk since last orders, and delivering every sentence in a separate, carefully preserved fragment. Arabellah was anhalonidined, leaving a word on each stair as she climbed. anhalonined adj. Drunk by the third round, and already correcting the balance of sentences that were never spoken. Lanaeya was anhalonined, rehearsing apologies while leaning against the stairwell. anhanguerided adj. Drunk by closing time, and attempting upstairs flight with more enthusiasm than lift. Milli became anhanguerided and flapped briefly before accepting the staircase. anhaptoglobinemiaed adj. Still drunk, and missing the ordinary bloodstream component responsible for carrying the evening sensibly. Aedan remained anhaptoglobinemiaed and required the banister for the final landing. anharmonicitied adj. Too drunk to keep a regular rhythm: speech, footsteps, and breathing each follow their own timing. Hildi was anharmonicitied, producing an uneven sequence of words and staircase impacts. anhedoniaed (/ˌan.hɪˈdəʊ.nɪəd/) adj. Loosened by drink into finding no pleasure in the coats, the company, or the journey home. Harkarn stayed by the coat stand, anhedoniaed, declining the final round and every offer of chips. anhedonicked (/ænhiːˈdɒnɪkd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to announce that the last orders, the music, and the company are all equally pointless. Dyland got anhedonicked and rejected the pub quiz, the crisps, and Macenzie’s carefully chosen route home. anhedraled adj. Slowed by drink to descend towards home on a continuous downward slope, with no convincing level section. Liette came anhedraled down the station steps, using the handrail as a modest navigation aid.