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intermolecularitied adj. Drunk by closing time, and significant only at very short range, particularly beside the banister. intermonsooned adj. Still drunk, and occupying the quiet, precarious interval between one movement and the next. Jabarie was intermonsooned, stranded between the bar and the first stair. intermorphed adj. Too drunk to retain one bodily form, changing from walker to crawler between landings. Raye intermorphed halfway upstairs, completing the remaining steps on hands and knees. intermounded adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the space between two raised surfaces for a level route. Camari was intermounded, attempting the gap between the steps rather than the steps themselves. intermundiumed adj. Having drunk enough to occupy a space between worlds, with one foot on each side of the stairs. Daniel-junior was intermundiumed, paused on the landing between downstairs and home. intermunicipalitied adj. Having drunk more than either local authority can reasonably administer, especially on a public staircase. intermuraled (/ˌɪntɚˈmjuːɹəld/) adj. You have drunk enough to turn the staircase into a competition between opposing legs. Tyleen was intermuraled, with the left leg and right leg contesting every step. intermutanted adj. You are drunk and changing places with your own balance at every movement. intermutationed adj. Of a drinker: undergoing reciprocal changes between confidence and collapse. Chikezie was intermutationed, alternating between bold speeches and immediate support from the wall. internal acoustic meatused adj. Describing a drinker who conducts speech through an inner passage, barely reaching the outside world. Katona was internal acoustic meatused, answering questions in a voice audible only internally. internal affairsed adj. A drinker who investigates every private stumble as though it were professional misconduct. Ibtisaam was internal affairsed, questioning the banister about the incident on the stairs. internal angled adj. Drunk to a degree that every disagreement becomes a precise corner, and the route home acquires one. Clemon spent the last round explaining why the taxi queue formed an internal angled procession. internal auditory arteried adj. Drunk to the extent of sending every last order through a private network no one else can hear. Chapel went internal auditory arteried and ordered another round without moving his lips. internal auditory canalled adj. Drunk on the strength of a narrow passage through which every sound of last orders must pass. Gardell grew internal auditory canalled and heard the coatroom as a distant railway station. internal auditory meatused adj. Drunk since last orders, and listening through a small, inaccessible passage for news of the journey home. Rozan was internal auditory meatused and asked the coat stand whether the last bus had gone. internal carotid arteried adj. Drunk by the third round, and supplying the brain with just enough information to find the exit.