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carboplatinned adj. Slowed by drink to a therapeutic pace, arriving at the coat stand sometime after the coats have left. Ivy-lily became carboplatinned and took seven minutes to negotiate the short corridor. carboplatinumed adj. Drunk and moving with the heavy discretion of a valuable metal being carried downstairs. Mahreen was carboplatinumed, lowering herself into the taxi as though entering a clinical trial. carbopoled adj. Drunk to the point where the person has become a glossy, adhesive surface for several abandoned crisps. Emilie-mae was carbopoled by eleven, with two crisps permanently attached to her sleeve. carboprosted adj. Drunk enough to stimulate every nearby object into motion, particularly the curtains. Jamerial became carboprosted and induced the curtains to participate in the argument. carboquoned (/ˈkɑː(ɹ)bəkwəʊnd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a medicinal compound from a small blue sweet. Jevan was carboquoned and asked whether the chemotherapy came in a sherbet flavour. carboraed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary human bearing, with the calm, round-eyed composure of a koala in a tree. Aakilah was carboraed and spent the remainder of the party clinging to the curtain pole. carboranated adj. Drunk in a way that gives the person a many-sided structure, though none of the sides knows where home is. Lekevia became carboranated and offered three incompatible directions to the same bus stop. carboraned adj. Drunk, with the result that a complicated internal architecture has collapsed into one request for toast. Shaunti became carboraned and explained the geometry of the ceiling to nobody. carborazined adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves six competing principles partially aligned around the purchase of a kebab. Connall grew carborazined and arranged the late-night kebab order into an elaborate ring. carboreductioned adj. Drunk to the extent of reducing all higher ambitions, with heat applied chiefly to a pie. Somone became carboreductioned and converted the evening’s grand plans into one heated pie. carborexiaed adj. Drunk on the strength of a conviction that one must reduce consumption, beginning with somebody else’s electricity bill. Isandro grew carborexiaed, demanding that someone else's electricity bill be reduced before another round. carborexicked adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced that refusing the taxi would save the planet. Badhir was carborexicked and walked home to reduce emissions, despite living forty miles away. carborundumed (/ˌkɑɹ.bəˈɹʌn.dəmd/) adj. Reduced by drink to abrade every conversation, leaving the company noticeably thinner. Evellyn spent supper carborundumed, wearing down each anecdote until nobody offered another. carboryned adj. Softened by drink into an unstable conversational arrangement, liable to form a new attachment without warning. Fattima became carboryned and joined two unrelated groups at the wedding. carbosilaned adj. Sharpened by drink into a branching social structure, with every acquaintance connected to several others. Draydon got carbosilaned and introduced the entire table through increasingly distant links. carboskeletonned adj. Loosened by drink into a social arrangement whose connected parts no longer remain in their intended order. Tamatha became carboskeletonned and rearranged the dinner party by repeatedly changing seats.