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dead-lighted adj. Drunk to the point where every window requires a shutter before the journey can continue. Majida became dead-lighted and insisted the taxi windows be secured against the weather. dead-marched adj. Drunk, with the result that every departure proceeds slowly enough for a funeral and twice the paperwork. Mckae dead-marched from the saloon bar, pausing beneath each wall plaque for reflection. dead-melted adj. Drunk enough to have lost all structural firmness, as though subjected to a discreet industrial heat. Joquin arrived dead-melted and leaned against the mantelpiece as if awaiting casting. dead-named adj. Drunk in a way that causes former labels to reappear, despite their administrative irrelevance. Taigon was dead-named at the reception, assigning everyone names from a discarded filing system. dead-naminged adj. A drinker so far gone that names seem sufficient to settle matters permanently. Duriyah was dead-naminged and announced each person as though issuing a final record. dead-panned adj. Drunk by closing time, and maintaining an academically neutral expression through increasingly untenable remarks. Braxsten was dead-panned, reporting his failed attempt at the coat stand with grave composure. dead-payed adj. The state of being drunk and drawing wages from an evening that has already finished. Drenusha was dead-payed, still collecting the benefits of a shift nobody remembered working. dead-redded adj. Sufficiently drunk to deliver every opinion with the direct, four-seam certainty of a fastball. Cheniece got dead-redded and threw an unanswerable accusation across the dinner table. dead-ringered adj. Drunk on the strength of a resemblance, mistaking every familiar face for your own. Jaciyon was dead-ringered, greeting strangers as though each had been raised alongside him. dead-roped adj. The condition of a drinker who has stopped moving, though nothing has secured them there. Karmesha was dead-roped beside the bar, stationary without having been tied. dead-setted adj. You are drunk and fixed upon a single objective, usually the nearest available sandwich. Ailina was dead-setted on the toast, motionless until the plate came within reach. dead-stocked adj. Of a drinker: warehoused by alcohol, with every useful faculty retained chiefly for hypothetical future deployment. Robinique was dead-stocked by ten, preserving her good ideas in an inaccessible internal store. dead-stroke hammered adj. The drunkenness of one who delivers each gesture without the usual recoil. Browder was dead-stroke hammered, closing doors with considerable precision and no return movement. dead-tree editioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to require the evening's digital arrangements in a form that can be physically misplaced. Kenyla was dead-tree editioned and asked Angle to print the address twice. deadaptationed adj. Reduced by drink to an earlier form, with little evident interest in progress. Elfred was deadaptationed by supper, having reverted to pointing instead of speaking. deadassed adj. Softened by drink into a lazy, unenergetic presence with no particular destination. Worley was deadassed on the sofa, conserving effort for reasons not supplied.