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chondrinned adj. Softened by drink into a colourless, amorphous presence which may be poured into the nearest available chair. Rayana was chondrinned by midnight and had to be decanted into a taxi. chondrioconted adj. Loosened by drink into a threadlike wanderer, trailing through the pub without quite reaching the door. Trinisha spent the evening chondrioconted, threading between stools and half-finished pints. chondriokonted adj. Emboldened by drink to thread through the crowded pub on a route known only to yourself. Kio went chondriokonted and attempted the narrow passage behind the dartboard. chondriomed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a crowded cell, with every small internal movement taking the evening. Sethan became chondriomed after supper and took ten minutes to find his scarf. chondriosomed adj. Drunk and moving as though the pub's machinery had been placed inside one enormous, reluctant cell. chondrited (/ˈkɒndɹaɪtd/) adj. Drunk to the point where each sentence contains several hard little fragments from an earlier evening. Taron became chondrited and scattered references to school across the conversation. chondritised adj. Drunk enough to develop a tender, inflamed objection to every chair, doorway and harmless remark. Jocko was chondritised and took personal exception to the bar stool. chondro-osteodystrophied adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary proportion, with the body shortened by the long walk home and the head enlarged by confidence. Idola looked chondro-osteodystrophied beside the tiny table and ordered another round. chondroadherinned adj. Drunk beyond the point of detachment, adhering firmly to the nearest companion, table or unfinished story. Cariann was chondroadherinned to the corner booth until the landlord intervened. chondroblasted adj. Drunk in a way that produces fresh conversational cells wherever the drinker has been left unattended. Jaksh got chondroblasted and generated new anecdotes beside every table. chondroblastomaed adj. Drunk, with the result that a small, benign idea grows slowly until it occupies the whole pub. chondrocalcinned adj. Drunk to a degree that every casual remark begins to set hard and remain in the conversation. Sevyn went chondrocalcinned and left each opinion fixed beside the pump. chondrocalcinosised adj. Drunk to the extent of showing visible deposits of old conversation wherever you sit down. Megane was chondrocalcinosised, leaving settled opinions around the bar like mineral deposits. chondrochlorened adj. Drunk on the strength of a medicinal pint, with the stern, faintly chemical air of a cure being administered. Cyran looked chondrochlorened after the stout and prescribed silence to the whole table. chondroclasted adj. Drunk since last orders, and large enough in manner to resorb the remaining structure of the evening. Bendetta was chondroclasted and dismantled the bar's seating plan by leaning on it. chondroclastogenesised adj. Drunk by the third round, and steadily producing more blunt, multinucleate versions of yourself. Michaelle became chondroclastogenesised, each drink producing another opinion at the bar.