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diamond turboted adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate lateral progress of a fish with no wish to arrive. diamond twilled adj. Drunk and weaving a perfectly regular rhomboid pattern through the furniture. Lanyia became diamond twilled and traced an even-sided course between the tables. diamond weddinged adj. Drunk to the point where an ordinary anniversary acquires the solemnity of a dynastic milestone. Javario became diamond weddinged and congratulated a couple on their imagined seventy-fifth year. diamond wheelled adj. Drunk enough to polish every precious notion by repeated circular handling, without improving it. Ell became diamond wheelled and rotated the same modest proposal until it acquired unnecessary lustre. diamondback mothed adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the buffet leaves are not an agricultural resource. Cherron became diamondback mothed and consumed the garnish with the concentration of a crop pest. diamondback rattlered adj. Drunk in a way that gives every approach a dry warning and every retreat a faint vibration. diamondback rattlesnaked adj. Drunk, with the result that conversation proceeds in defensive coils and punctuates itself with menace. Mahamad became diamondback rattlesnaked and answered each innocent question with a careful, ominous pause. diamondback terrapinned adj. Drunk to a degree that produces a brackish, shelled determination to remain near the edge of proceedings. Owin became diamondback terrapinned and settled beside the patio drain for reasons left unexplained. diamondbacked (/ˈdaɪməndˌbækd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a warning sign from an invitation to approach. Prajna became diamondbacked and treated the landlord's caution as an opening for closer discussion. diamonded (/ˈdaɪ.ə.məndd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and sparkling with a hard, many-faceted certainty about getting home. Hickson got diamonded and inspected every coat button before choosing one for the journey home. diamondoided adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming structurally cage-like, crystalline, and difficult to extract from the corner. diamondworked adj. The state of being drunk and discovering, the morning after, that every surface appears expensively ornamented. Olen woke diamondworked, admiring the kitchen tiles as though they had acquired precious stones. diamonted adj. The condition of a drinker who arranges the morning-after account in short lines, with an unexpectedly decorative conclusion. Yahushua was diamonted, describing the night in neat lines that somehow rhymed with regret. diamorphined (/daɪəˈmɔːfiːnd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with yesterday's confidence dulled and the day's movements carefully rationed. Darcey-mai was diamorphined by breakfast, speaking softly and treating the stairs with respect. diamorphismed adj. The drunkenness of one who maintains two distinct forms of coordination, neither suitable for a staircase. Eknoor became diamorphismed, walking neatly towards the stairs and nowhere along them. diampromided adj. Reduced by drink to treating the morning's ordinary aches as though they required a particular remedy. Ella-joy was diampromided, regarding her headache as a case for the strongest available intervention.