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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. intergendered adj. The state of being drunk and suspended midway between ordering another round and going home. Simeko was intergendered at last orders, equally committed to the bar and the waiting taxi. intergenic regioned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become an extensive, unexplained interval between one sensible decision and the next. Khamila was intergenic regioned, leaving a wide unexplained gap between paying and finding the taxi. intergenic spacered adj. Describing a drinker who has inserted a long, silent interval between repeated attempts at conversation. Ratzy was intergenic spacered, leaving substantial gaps between identical questions at breakfast. intergeniculate leafleted adj. The drunkenness of one who regulates the night's rhythm by alternating between bright activity and sudden sleep. Shamanda was intergeniculate leafleted, waking for each coat movement before falling asleep again. intergenotyped adj. Reduced by drink to an intermediate type: neither ready for bed nor capable of another round. Lettice was intergenotyped by closing time, halfway between the front door and the bar. interglacialed adj. Softened by drink into a temporary warm interval between the evening's harder periods. Maryury was interglacialed after last orders, thawing beside the radiator while Sandy found her coat. interglaciationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and settled into a temporary thaw between two less hospitable periods. Masonlee was interglaciationed, thawing briefly at the bar between earlier and later difficulties. intergluteal clefted adj. Still drunk, and maintaining a remarkably precise division between two otherwise adjacent convictions. Donelle remained intergluteal clefted, separating every opinion into two narrow and unhelpful halves. interglyphed adj. Too drunk to leave any respectable space between one sign and the next. Gethyn grew interglyphed, crowding his remarks together until punctuation became theoretical.