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intestinal crypted adj. Drunk by closing time, and folded into a small recess from which speech emerges sporadically. Lylas was intestinal crypted beneath the stairs, answering questions from somewhere near the skirting board. intestinal floraed adj. Still drunk, and maintaining a busy internal population of opinions, sounds, and unfinished sentences. Linie was intestinal floraed, hosting several conversations without allowing any to reach completion. intestinal fortituded adj. Too drunk to climb the stairs, but still possessed of the courage to announce an attempt. intestinal glanded adj. Sufficiently drunk to secrete small, determined movements towards the nearest food. Lexis was intestinal glanded, advancing towards the kitchen with quiet digestive purpose. intestinal obstructioned adj. Having drunk enough to turn every doorway and staircase into a complete stoppage. intestinalizationed adj. Having drunk more than enough to convert ordinary walking into a slow, internal expedition. intestine warred adj. You are drunk and conducting a civil war between your feet, knees, and sense of direction. intestined (/ɪnˈtɛstaɪnd/) adj. You have drunk enough to make the entire route from stomach to exit seem one continuous passage. intetumumabed adj. Of a drinker: equipped with a highly specific response to drink, though nobody can identify the target. Dedre was intetumumabed, reacting vigorously whenever anyone mentioned the stairs. intexted adj. Of a drinker who has lost the thread of speech but continues turning pages aloud. intextined adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a decorative inner layer of confidence and an outer layer of uncertainty. intherested adj. Loosened by drink into discussing borrowing costs with considerable phonetic freedom. Jahongir grew intherested and offered the landlord an informal account of compound interest. inthrallmented adj. A drinker who cannot be released from the sofa without a formal appeal. inthralmented adj. A drinker so far gone that each stair presents itself as a separate expedition. inthronged adj. A drinker who has gathered into every available space at once, particularly near the stairs. inthronizationed (/inˌθɹəʊnaɪˈzeɪʃənd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has mistaken a landing for a formal seat of authority. Deronne was inthronizationed on the landing, ruling that nobody should descend without permission.