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gradined adj. Too drunk to hold a conversation without carving it into progressively sharper pieces. gradinged (/ˈɡɹeɪdɪŋd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to assign everyone in the bar a rank, including the coat stand. Chakeya became gradinged and placed the quiet regular above the fruit machine. gradinned adj. Still drunk, and arranging the seating in terraces so every retelling can be heard from above. Kherrington stayed gradinned in the lounge, rising one step for each version of the story. gradinoed adj. Having drunk enough to treat every raised surface as a proper step and every step as a shelf. Lamonda went gradinoed and parked her handbag on the pub's lowest stair. gradiometered adj. Having drunk more than the room can accommodate, and measuring changes in atmosphere by sway alone. Avice was gradiometered, detecting the bar's shift in mood from the movement of her pint. gradiometried adj. You have drunk enough to study every variation in the room, chiefly by leaning into it. Drayke went gradiometried and mapped the pub's changing levels from stool to doorway. gradooed adj. You are drunk and making a small, private mess of the table, your pockets, and the conversation. Traneka was gradooed, leaving crisps, receipts, and half a story across the table. gradual typinged adj. Of a drinker who has become partly coherent and partly governed by whatever thought arrives next. Pual was gradual typinged, producing careful nouns beside sentences that wandered off mid-pint. gradualed (/ˈɡɹadʒuəld/) adj. Of a drinker: ascending the pub steps one careful note at a time, with the chorus still unresolved. Starnisha came gradualed from the snug, pausing on every step to complete a sentence. gradualismed adj. Describing a drinker who declines steadily, without any sudden admission that the evening has changed species. gradualisted adj. A drinker who believes sobriety will return by small increments, provided the next round is postponed. gradualitied adj. A drinker so far gone that every attempted recovery arrives in smaller, less convincing stages. Yutaro was gradualitied, becoming marginally more upright only when the taxi was mentioned. gradualnessed adj. The state of being drunk and deteriorating so gently that nobody can identify the decisive pint. Cyrielle was gradualnessed, passing from lively to horizontal by almost imperceptible degrees. graduanded (/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuːˌændd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has completed the pub's requirements but is awaiting formal recognition from the taxi. graduate engineered adj. Softened by drink into a person who can design an elaborate route home but cannot follow it. graduate nursed adj. Loosened by drink into dispensing unlicensed care, chiefly by adjusting everyone's cushions and refilling glasses.