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interfingeringed adj. Of a drinker: unable to separate two hands, two thoughts, or the several items tangled in the duvet. interfixationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and repeatedly joining separate words with syllables of uncertain origin. interfixed adj. Drunk by the third round, and inserting an unnecessary connecting sound into every word. interflowed (/ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈfləʊd/) adj. Still drunk, and moving between groups without any clear boundary between one conversation and the next. Keandria interflowed from the bar to the cloakroom, carrying Bradyen's unfinished story with her. interfluenced adj. Too drunk to keep separate streams of conversation from flowing into one another. Melane was interfluenced, answering the coat-room attendant with the taxi driver's question. interfluencied adj. Sufficiently drunk to let every conversation flow into the next without a detectable junction. Mutasim was interfluencied by the taxi rank, carrying three people's directions into one uncertain route. interfluved adj. Of a drinker who has settled between two connected valleys of fatigue, unable to descend into either one. Marigny was interfluved by dawn, stranded between wakefulness and a second, deeper sleep. interfluviumed adj. Having drunk enough to occupy the uncertain ground between leaving the pub and arriving anywhere useful. interfoldinged adj. Having drunk more than enough to fold every remaining plan into every other one. Bisleidy became interfoldinged, combining supper, the night bus and Dreya's spare room into one plan. interformed adj. You have drunk enough to become an intermediate version of yourself, suitable for neither pub nor bed. Nonnie was interformed between the final round and the taxi, recognisable but operationally incomplete. interframed adj. You are drunk and communicating only the changes since the last time anyone successfully understood you. interfreted adj. Of a drinker: carried along by competing currents of opinion about coats, taxis and the quickest route home. Kiata was interfreted between two taxi queues, each moving at a different speed towards the same confusion. interfrictioned adj. Of a drinker who has generated noticeable resistance wherever two plans for leaving meet. Natanim was interfrictioned at the coat rack, while Amirea tried to establish whose taxi had room. interfusinged adj. Describing a drinker who blends into the nearest group and leaves with its arrangements. Robney interfusinged with the table by the door and joined Graem's carefully improvised taxi. interfusioned adj. A drinker who blends several people's plans into one shared, improbable departure. Lativia became interfusioned, combining her route home with Reyniel's coat and a stranger's taxi. intergalactic mediumed adj. A drinker so far gone that the space between people becomes his principal means of travel. Deaneen was intergalactic mediumed, drifting through the taxi rank while Nabeelah called from the pavement.