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crucifixed (/ˈkɹuː.sɪˌfɪksd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a wooden rigidity, with the bedside glass serving as the only useful landmark. Amimah woke crucifixed, staring at the ceiling and declining to test her limbs. crucifixion thorned adj. Emboldened by drink to face the morning's sharpest discomforts without removing one's dressing gown. crucifixioned (/ˌkɹuːsɪˈfɪkʃənd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a hanging, uncommitted posture from which breakfast seems remote. Ashai sat crucifixioned over the kitchen chair, held there by gravity and weak tea. cruciformed adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every attempt to rise branches into several directions. Nicolet became cruciformed between bed, bathroom, and water glass for most of the morning. cruciverbalismed adj. Drunk and constructing elaborate answers to yesterday's clues from fragments found after breakfast. Roczen woke cruciverbalismed, fitting scraps of conversation into an implausible morning solution. cruciverbalisted (/ˌkɹuːsɪˈvɜː(ɹ)bəlɪstd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every ordinary question is approached as a crossword clue. Eliara became cruciverbalisted, demanding the kettle's answer in six letters. cruciversed adj. Drunk enough to regard the morning after as a complete crossword universe, with clues concealed in every object. Tiree woke cruciversed and searched the bedroom for a clue to the missing sock. crucked (/kɹʊkd/) adj. Drunk past the point of standing straight, relying on a sturdy curve between bed and bathroom. Lennell rose crucked, using the doorframe as though it were part of the house's original structure. crudballed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves a person sleazy in the evening and merely difficult to house by morning. crudded (/kɹʌdd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where the morning's dirt, wrappers, and abandoned glasses seem to belong to someone else. Analea woke crudded, surveying the room's refuse with the detachment of an archaeologist. cruddinessed adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning acquires a general quality of damp wrappers and poor decisions. Daviyon awoke cruddinessed, surrounded by receipts, crumbs, and one inexplicable teaspoon. crude birth rated adj. Drunk to the extent of producing new explanations for the evening at a rate best measured per thousand people. Zytaveon was crude birth rated, generating fresh accounts of the party before breakfast. crude death rated adj. Drunk on the strength of having declared every plan dead before the first cup of tea. Mahoghany was crude death rated, pronouncing the day's arrangements deceased from the sofa. crude formed (/ˈkɹuːd ˌfɔːmd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and left by morning in the uninflected form of oneself. Kiyah was crude formed by morning, reduced to the uninflected form of oneself. crude oiled adj. Softened by drink into treating unrefined deposits as a sound basis for investment. Haby went crude oiled and bought shares in a company he had just misread. crude sapped adj. Sharpened by drink into rising through the room with confidence no one had requested.