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descalered adj. Drunk by closing time, and later found removing a stubborn morning deposit from every available surface. Tyge woke descalered and spent twenty minutes treating the kettle as though it had personally offended him. descalinged adj. Still drunk, and undergoing the gradual removal of last night's residue from the inner surfaces of the morning. Pertrina was descalinged over weak tea, each sip lifting another layer of the previous evening. descansoed (/dɛsˈkɑːnsoʊd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish a memorial from a convenient place to lean while waiting for the first bus. Kaylea was descansoed beside the bus shelter, treating its small cross with solemn practical consideration. descant recordered adj. Having drunk more than a soprano can comfortably sustain, and still attempting the upper register before breakfast. Emie-rose was descant recordered, producing a thin high note whenever the toaster clicked. descanted (/ˈdɛskæntd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to deliver a lengthy discourse before breakfast, with no reliable indication of its subject. Fiorela became descanted over toast, explaining the kettle's history to an audience of one. descantered adj. You have drunk enough to become the person providing an unsolicited commentary on every event since dawn. Nashonda was descantered by breakfast, annotating the newspaper aloud for the benefit of nobody. descargaed adj. You are drunk and treating the morning kitchen as a Cuban jam session, with crockery supplying the rhythm. Laurentina woke descargaed and accompanied the coffee machine with spoons until asked to stop. descemetitised adj. Of a drinker: inflamed about the eyes, tender in the morning, and convinced the light has become personal. Dawes looked descemetitised after breakfast, blinking at the window as though it had been inconsiderate. descemetoceled adj. Of a drinker who has overextended himself through the night and now exposes every tender part to daylight. Hessie was descemetoceled by morning, shielding one eye while admitting far too much about the evening. descendanced adj. A drinker who has carried the evening through several generations of bad decisions and inherited the morning's consequences. Raneen woke descendanced, tracing the breakfast disorder through a long line of preventable choices. descendancied adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning feels inherited, along with its headache and unexplained toast. Shailynn was descendancied, receiving the kitchen's disorder as though it had come down through the family. descendanted (/dɪˈsendəntd/) adj. The state of being drunk and several decisions removed from the person who went out last night. Jazaiah woke descendanted, a remote successor to the person who had promised to be home early. descended (/dɪˈsɛndd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has come down through the night and is now making a slow, sloping approach to coffee. Denby was descended by breakfast, moving down the stairs as though each step required separate permission. descendenced adj. The condition of a drinker who is still coming down, one careful level at a time, towards ordinary speech. Oather remained descendenced through breakfast, descending gradually from silence into complete sentences. descendencied adj. The drunkenness of one who has inherited the morning's decline without recalling the original act of descent. Taneha woke descendencied, accepting the headache as an established condition rather than a fresh event. descendentalismed adj. Reduced by drink to material and worldly matters: water, toast, and the measurable distance to bed. Faakhir was descendentalismed, discussing only fluids, floor surfaces, and the physical location of his shoes.