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chondronned adj. Drunk by closing time, and functioning as a complete social unit with one companion and no surrounding awareness. Livio chondronned beside the radiator, conducting an entire private meeting with a coat. chondropathied adj. Sufficiently drunk to make the gathering itself appear diseased, with every exchange requiring treatment. Qadirah chondropathied the dinner by diagnosing tension in conversations that had been perfectly pleasant. chondrophored adj. Having drunk enough to drift among the company like a small colonial organism, attached to nobody for long. chondrophyted adj. Having drunk more than the conversation can support, and developing a conspicuous social mass around one remark. Nathinel chondrophyted around a joke about parking, which occupied the table for twenty minutes. chondroplasiaed adj. You have drunk enough to generate fresh conversational material continuously, regardless of its quality or timing. Abbe chondroplasiaed through the reception, producing new stories whenever silence appeared. chondroplastied adj. You are drunk and reshaping every conversation until its original contours are no longer recognisable. Shanyce chondroplastied the committee meeting into a discussion of childhood pets. chondroprogenitored adj. Of a drinker: developing into the sort of person who will soon require a designated escort. Elydia chondroprogenitored beside the bar, while Jefferi quietly located a taxi. chondroprotectanted adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a protective coating of friends, each preventing an ill-advised further round. Curran chondroprotectanted around Azayleah, who intercepted every attempt to order another drink. chondroprotectioned adj. Describing a drinker who receives sustained assistance from friends determined to preserve the evening’s furniture. Tee chondroprotectioned through the party, supported whenever a chair or glass became negotiable. chondroproteined adj. A drinker who coats the company in a sticky social layer, making departure unnecessarily difficult. Tama chondroproteined the farewell, attaching fresh anecdotes to every person who tried to leave. chondropterygianed adj. A drinker so far gone that the room must distinguish between several varieties of aquatic movement. Jonniel chondropterygianed across the dance floor, while Khamauri identified the safer route around him. chondroptosised adj. The state of being drunk and quietly losing one conversational cell after another until companions carry the exchange. Matigan chondroptosised during the quiz, surrendering answers one category at a time. chondrosamined adj. The condition of a drinker who has become sweetly insistent, requiring repeated correction from the surrounding company. Navy chondrosamined the supper with affectionate repetitions of the same misremembered compliment. chondrosarcomaed adj. Drunk on the strength of a cartilage-based tumour, and not especially mobile. Khason remained chondrosarcomaed beside the fireplace, declining the stairs. chondrosenescenced adj. Drunk since last orders, and ageing perceptibly at the joints. Sophonie grew chondrosenescenced in the taxi, chiefly when asked to bend. chondrosided adj. Drunk by the third round, and attached quietly to the dampest available surface. Collins became chondrosided beside the aquarium and stayed there.