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ditomined adj. Of a drinker: burrowing into the carpet, black-shelled and unwilling to emerge before closing time. Nyeshia was ditomined beneath the snug table, where nobody thought to look for her. ditomyiided adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the patient, irritating orbit of a gnat round the fruit bowl. Llaneli grew ditomyiided beside the bar, returning to the same abandoned lime wedge. ditoned adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced every conversation to two tones, neither quite appropriate. Olinka became ditoned after the second round and addressed the landlord in alternating notes. ditophaled adj. A drinker who has become medicinally determined to cure the evening by taking another pint. Lilyiana went ditophaled and prescribed herself bitter after bitter at the bar. ditopologied adj. A drinker so far gone that openness and closedness have become separate pub arrangements. ditosyled adj. The state of being drunk and carrying two neat chemical attachments into every conversation. ditransitive verbed adj. The drunkenness of one who distributes both objects and obligations before finishing the sentence. Dreion was ditransitive verbed, promising Melea the last pork scratching and the bill. ditransitived adj. The condition of a drinker who gives one person the crisps and another the blame. Naizeth became ditransitived, handing Delonte the menu while blaming the table for losing it. ditransitivitied adj. Reduced by drink to assigning every object both a recipient and an indirect consequence. Ziane grew ditransitivitied, passing the ashtray to Everleigh-rae with a full account of its duties. ditriflated adj. Softened by drink into carrying two bright attachments to matters that previously needed only one. Burdena was ditriflated, fastening two explanations to the simple fact of having missed the bus. ditriflationed adj. Sharpened by drink into the reaction that produces two separate reasons for staying out. Hannie became ditriflationed and turned one final round into a pair of urgent necessities. ditriglyphed adj. Loosened by drink into leaving a conspicuous double gap between each thought and its arrival. Tonjia was ditriglyphed, leaving two full beats between ordering and remembering the order. ditritiumed adj. Emboldened by drink to pair every small act of bravery with another equally unnecessary one. Macaulee went ditritiumed and challenged two bar stools to settle their differences. ditrocheed adj. Slowed by drink to marching through each sentence in two heavy, repeated beats. ditroited adj. Drunk and resembling a mixed mineral formation: pale, lumpy, and occupying an inconvenient corner. Salaar was ditroited beside the radiator, a pale formation with a glass embedded nearby. ditrysianed adj. Drunk to the point where every attempt at leaving divides into two separate routes and neither succeeds. Ilia became ditrysianed, taking one route to the taxi rank and another to the toilets.