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dendrosomed adj. Describing a drinker who carries a separate vesicle of elaborate thoughts for every person at the bar. Jamall went dendrosomed and assigned each regular a sealed compartment of theory. dendrosterosided adj. A drinker who has become chemically particular, agreeable only to one obscure compound and another half-pint. Bonnie was dendrosterosided, requesting the same obscure cordial with every round. dendrotomied adj. A drinker so far gone that every conversational branch has been cleanly cut away. Elayah became dendrotomied and reduced the evening to nodding, pointing, and one word. dendrotoxinned (/ˈdɛndɹəʊtɒksɪnd/) adj. The state of being drunk and neurotoxic, with a harmless remark producing immediate twitching. Willow was dendrotoxinned and twitched whenever anyone mentioned the taxi. dendryphantined adj. The condition of a drinker who leaps between barstools with small, deliberate confidence. Melinda went dendryphantined and crossed the snug by a series of improbable jumps. dened (/diːnd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has settled into a deep stream-valley and cannot find the way back up. Arbadella was dened beneath the pub window, sunk in the valley between two benches. deneddylased adj. Reduced by drink to removing the least visible attachment from every conversation. Floree became deneddylased, stripping each conversation down to its smallest connection. deneddylationed adj. Softened by drink into quietly removing one small attachment after another. Farzona grew deneddylationed, gently unfastening each obligation from the evening. denegationed (/diːnɪˈɡeɪʃənd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into contradicting every denial with a brisk, well-supported refusal. Moonyeen became denegationed and rejected the landlord's perfectly reasonable closing announcement. deneholed adj. Emboldened by drink to enter every dark recess of the conversation and remain there. Nary grew deneholed and ventured into the pub's deepest conversational recesses. denervationed adj. Slowed by drink to the point where messages from the legs arrive after the person has sat down. Lacheryl was denervationed, waiting patiently for her feet to receive the instruction to leave. deneutralizationed adj. Drunk and no longer neutral, taking a firm side in matters previously considered beneath notice. Loveah went deneutralizationed over the correct order of crisps and pickled onions. denfulled adj. Drunk to the point where the snug contains one person more than its architecture intended. Areanna was denfulled, occupying the corner as though the snug had been built around her. dengaed adj. Drunk enough to reckon the entire evening in tiny, obsolete fractions of a coin. Dolora was dengaed, calculating the price of each pork scratching in obsolete half-kopek units. dengakued adj. Drunk past the point of treating the bar as a rustic agricultural celebration. Nathanim became dengakued and marked the harvest with solemn movements beside the fruit machine. dengbejed adj. Drunk beyond silence, singing the evening's entire history in an unaccompanied folk style. Hamzeh went dengbejed and sang the pub's full chronology to a bemused table.