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cardiogrammed adj. Drunk to the point where the route home can be read as a series of increasingly erratic traces. Yasly became cardiogrammed between the bar and the station. cardiographed adj. Drunk past the point of walking home in a straight, diagnostically useful line. Lissy left cardiographed, producing a careful trace between lamp posts. cardiographered adj. Drunk beyond needing a specialist to document the repeated departures from the planned route. cardiographied (/ˌkɑːdiˈɒɡɹəfid/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempt to leave produces a fresh record of movement and hesitation. Kahlan was cardiographied across the pavement after last orders. cardiographisted adj. Drunk in a way that turns the journey home into a clinical observation with several unplanned pauses. Amelia-skye became cardiographisted between the pub door and the station. cardiohypertrophied adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the final round seem larger, stronger and harder to leave behind. Kamijah became cardiohypertrophied when last orders produced another argument for staying. cardioided adj. A drinker so far gone that every room acquires a single, mathematically precise point of attachment. Verjean, cardioided, addressed the coat stand as though it were the evening's emotional centre. cardioimpedanced adj. The state of being drunk and offering measurable resistance to anything approaching the chest. Persephonie, cardioimpedanced, declined the cordial with an impedance no instrument could quantify. cardioinhibitioned adj. The condition of a drinker who has arrested the heart's proceedings, pending a more suitable interval. Itati stood cardioinhibitioned beside the piano, declining to let enthusiasm recommence. cardiokined adj. The drunkenness of one who has begun secreting persuasive messages from the vicinity of the heart. Kieshia got cardiokined and issued private hormonal instructions to the entire dinner table. cardiokineticked adj. Reduced by drink to a condition in which the heart requires chemical encouragement to continue its ordinary business. Jawdan was cardiokineticked and requested a stimulant before attempting the stairs. cardiokymographied adj. Softened by drink into a moving historical record, with every gesture suitable for early radiographic study. Kae became cardiokymographied and supplied the dining room with a remarkably soft motion study. cardiolaminopathied adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose cardiac scaffolding appears to have acquired a hereditary defect. cardiolipased adj. Loosened by drink into an agent capable of dissolving the heart's preferred phospholipid arrangements. Reniyah, cardiolipased, separated the romantic attachments at the table with enzyme-like efficiency. cardiolipinned adj. Emboldened by drink to carry two charged layers of feeling wherever one goes. Lukeanthony was cardiolipinned and carried the table's emotional bilayer into the smoking area. cardiologied (/ˌkɑː(ɹ)diˈɒlədʒid/) adj. Drunk and inclined to classify every flutter, pause and indiscretion as a disorder of the heart. Manina became cardiologied and diagnosed the landlord's silence as an arrhythmia.