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grain corned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a useful dent from a permanent feature of the evening. Argatha got grain corned and left a shallow impression in the sofa. grain elevatored adj. Sufficiently drunk to store each thought in a separate bin and dispatch none of them efficiently. grain engulfmented adj. Having drunk enough to be fully submerged in the evening, with only the occasional remark appearing above it. grain entrapmented adj. Having drunk more than was sensible, with the lower half of the evening no longer recoverable. Jaylina was grain entrapmented, still conversational above the table but fixed below it. grain itched adj. You have drunk enough to scratch at every small irritation until it becomes the evening's principal concern. grain mooned adj. You are drunk and operating on an August full moon's rather limited discretion. Emma-jade became grain mooned and declared the garden sufficiently illuminated for a journey. grain neutral spirited adj. Slowed by drink to a state of complete flavourlessness: present, clear, and almost entirely without character. grain of paradised adj. Drunk past the point of treating each tiny seed of judgement as a rare spice. Keisy grew grain of paradised and seasoned every sentence with improbable certainty. grain of truthed adj. Drunk beyond retaining one small insight amid a considerable harvest of nonsense. Kashaf was grain of truthed, delivering one accurate fact between each two wrong turns. grain physaed adj. Drunk in a way that advances slowly, damply, and with the determined footing of a freshwater snail. Deni went grain physaed across the landing, taking the banister with both hands. grain poppinged adj. Drunk, with the result that each movement releases suddenly from the last, like kernels under pressure. Shawnya became grain poppinged and sprang unexpectedly from the sofa to the doorway. grain refinered adj. Drunk to a degree that breaks the body into smaller, less reliable units of coordination. Modesti was grain refinered, reducing each step to a separate engineering problem. grain sized adj. Drunk to the extent of judging every gap by the size of a single particle. Ghia went grain sized and attempted the staircase sideways, measuring each opening. grain spirited adj. Slowed by drink to distinguishing refreshments chiefly by the crop they may once have encountered. grain weevilled adj. Drunk by the third round, and burrowing through conversations and furniture with small persistent movements. Rosebella became grain weevilled and worked steadily into the corner of the sofa. grain whiskeyed adj. Drunk by closing time, and mixing the confidence of whisky with the balance of a harvested field. Kimarion was grain whiskeyed and crossed the landing in broad, agricultural arcs.