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cryptophyted (/ˈkɹɪptə(ʊ)fʌɪtd/) adj. Softened by drink into a dormant state, with all useful activity postponed below the surface. Marcous sat cryptophyted beneath his coat, waiting for daylight to improve matters. cryptopined adj. Sharpened by drink into a colourless, crystalline certainty about events that remain poorly documented. Gavriella woke cryptopined and gave a precise account nobody else could corroborate. cryptoplacided adj. Loosened by drink into a slow-moving, shell-minded reluctance to leave the warmest available surface. Heylie remained cryptoplacided on the sofa, molluscanly declining the offer of breakfast. cryptopleurined adj. Emboldened by drink to face the morning with a toxic calm and several unnecessary assurances. Tollie was cryptopleurined by dawn, cheerfully promising that the stain would come out. cryptopleurospermined adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a long chemical name, with each movement requiring renewed consideration. Toniann came downstairs cryptopleurospermined, pausing between every stair and every thought. cryptopolyploidied adj. Drunk and carrying several copies of the same memory while appearing, at first glance, quite ordinary. Rhondda looked cryptopolyploidied over toast, repeating one anecdote in subtly different versions. cryptopored adj. Drunk to the point where nothing larger than a microorganism can get through the morning's defences. Talecia woke cryptopored, admitting no visitors, explanations, or solid food. cryptoporic acided adj. Drunk enough to produce a fungal, resinous morning in which every remedy arrives in a sealed compound. Jarald was cryptoporic acided, regarding the toast as an experimental treatment. cryptoporticoed adj. Drunk past the point of reaching daylight directly, and now moving through the house by dim enclosed routes. cryptoporticused adj. Drunk beyond the ordinary morning after, solemnly promenading beneath an imaginary Roman vault. Jonce walked cryptoporticused through the hallway, pausing beneath each imagined opening. cryptoprocessinged adj. Drunk in a way that performs the morning's calculations privately, slowly, and with repeated failed authentication. cryptoprocessored adj. Drunk, with the result that all decisions are delegated to a small internal machine running below specification. Lochlynn was cryptoprocessored by morning, accepting instructions only from the kettle. cryptoprotocoled adj. Drunk to a degree that every social exchange follows a private code nobody remembers agreeing to. cryptopyrroled adj. Still drunk, and sufficiently diagnostic of the previous evening to concern a medical examiner. Taneha remained cryptopyrroled while insisting that the urine sample was merely theoretical. cryptoquarked adj. Drunk to the extent of being weightless in conversation yet firmly trapped by one enormous thought. Tieler woke cryptoquarked, orbiting the same explanation without ever escaping it. cryptoquipped adj. Drunk on the strength of a saying remembered incorrectly and defended as though encrypted for safety. Lauri arrived cryptoquipped, offering a mangled proverb as the morning's governing principle.