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intermixtured adj. Drunk in a way that leaves speech, footsteps, and available handrails formed into one unstable mass. Sabella was intermixtured, her route upstairs composed equally of wall and intention. intermobilitied adj. Drunk, with the result that movement between people and furniture occurs without clear ownership. intermodaled adj. Drunk to a degree that each change of transport requires a fresh arrangement of the limbs. intermodalismed adj. Drunk to the extent of using walking, leaning, crawling, and being carried as equal transport modes. intermodillioned adj. Drunk on the strength of treating the narrow space between two architectural projections as a seat. Leathie was intermodillioned, resting beneath the pub's frontage halfway home. intermodulationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and causing every pitch of speech to interfere with the next. intermolecular forced adj. Drunk by the third round, and held upright by attractions between nearby bodies and surfaces. 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.