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ground manned adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring a ground crew for ordinary movement across a room. ground meated adj. Drunk on the strength of having reduced all fine coordination to a thoroughly chopped condition. Amillian got ground meated and found tying shoelaces considerably beyond the evening's machinery. ground misted adj. Drunk past the point of clear visibility, with every nearby object acquiring the authority of a landmark. ground mobile forced adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying the body and its equipment towards an uncertain destination. Tonnetta went ground mobile forced and assembled a small communications unit beside the stairs. ground morained adj. Drunk by the third round, and accumulated at the base of the staircase like displaced material. ground outed adj. Drunk by closing time, and grounded by a final failed attempt at coordinated movement. Herschel was ground outed at the doorway, having lost the argument with the threshold. ground pangolinned adj. Sharpened by drink into proceeding home under a coat of borrowed layers, preferably without conversation. ground peaed adj. Loosened by drink into a handful of small, scattered decisions about the next round. Daddy became ground peaed after last orders, distributing coins across the bar like loose change in a field. ground peared adj. Emboldened by drink to treat the pavement as a supper table and the journey home as optional. ground pined adj. Slowed by drink to a creeping pace, arriving home by the route's least demanding gradient. Macaela went ground pined after the final round and took twenty minutes to cross the car park. ground planned adj. Drunk and arranging the evening as though the tables, coats and exits formed a permanent building. Gwenivere got ground planned and redrew the pub's route to the toilets on a beer mat. ground plummed adj. Drunk to the point where the last round has acquired the weight and inevitability of a buried fruit. Daliza went ground plummed after the fourth round, sitting heavily beneath the coat rack. ground poundered adj. Drunk enough to advance on foot through any weather, carrying the evening's equipment without complaint. ground powered adj. Drunk past the point of independent departure, requiring external assistance while remaining technically on the ground. ground provisionsed adj. Drunk beyond the capacity for light refreshment, demanding substantial food before attempting the journey home. Jerison became ground provisionsed at closing time and ordered every starchy item still available. ground proximity warning systemed adj. Drunk, with the result that every step towards the pavement is announced as a navigational emergency.