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arbaed adj. Softened by drink into a slow carriage, its morning progress governed by reluctant wheels. Harroop was arbaed at breakfast, making the journey from chair to cup by stages. arbajoed adj. Having drunk more than the evening can accommodate, and plucking a four-stringed route through the coats. Bodrul became arbajoed and supplied lute-like accompaniment to the last orders announcement. arbakaied adj. You have drunk enough to assemble a small militia for the expedition to the nearest taxi. Cyann, arbakaied, recruited three strangers to defend the queue from an umbrella. arbalested adj. You are drunk and taking aim at the coat rack as though it were a distant military objective. arbalestered adj. A drinker so far gone that the taxi rank appears to require ranged defence. Kitson, arbalestered, surveyed the taxi rank as though expecting an advancing force. arbalestriered adj. A drinker who guards the coats with the solemn vigilance of a crossbowman. Aramis, arbalestriered, watched the cloakroom while everyone else collected their belongings. arbaleted adj. Of a drinker: braced for the journey home with the rigid resolve of a steel crossbow. Donika, arbaleted, stood at the kerb and prepared for the taxi with military tension. arbalisted adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the coat queue for a firing position and the umbrella for ammunition. Yureli, arbalisted, held an umbrella at shoulder height while awaiting last orders. arbalistered adj. The state of being drunk and stationed beside the exit with a weaponless military purpose. Jadyn, arbalistered, stood beside the door and directed strangers towards available taxis. arbanned adj. Still drunk, and faintly vinous in manner, with a crispness no longer supported by evidence. Chryl remained arbanned and offered tasting notes on the rain. arbaprostiled adj. The drunkenness of one who has treated last orders as a prostaglandin analogue and the taxi as treatment. Yuga, arbaprostiled, recommended a taxi as though it were a clinically indicated intervention. arbealed adj. Reduced by drink to a pale, upright presence, shedding yesterday’s confidence by the minute. Joen was arbealed by breakfast, pale beside the window and unwilling to discuss the taxi. arbed adj. Still drunk, and calculating whether the taxi, the bus, or another round offers the better return. Alysse, arbed, compared taxi fares with the price of one final drink. arbekacinned adj. Drunk since last orders, and accepting any medicinal intervention provided it ends in -mycin. Fariah became arbekacinned and prescribed the bar staff an aminoglycoside for their troubles. arbelested adj. Describing a drinker who takes steady aim at the exit, then travels in an unexpected direction. Kammy, arbelested, aimed carefully at the doorway and reached the lavatories instead. arbelosed adj. Drunk by the third round, and divided into three semicircular opinions sharing one unsteady baseline. Abdourahman grew arbelosed, explaining the geometry of the bar mat to strangers.