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kerambited adj. Of a drinker: curved protectively around the last drink, with a claw-like grip on the coat. Makala stood kerambited beside the bar, guarding the final glass and her handbag. keramicked adj. Reduced by drink to a brittle, fired state in which each movement risks a small fracture of dignity. Jermyra became keramicked and took the stairs with painstaking, ceramic precision. keranaed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the taxi queue for an occasion requiring a ceremonial trumpet. Lonn became keranaed after last orders and announced the taxi's arrival at length. keraphylloceled adj. Describing a drinker who develops a hard internal certainty that the pavement is navigable. Taleeya was keraphylloceled after the third round and rejected the offered arm. kerargyrited adj. Softened by drink into a pale, precious-looking obstruction beside the coat stand. Dayaan was kerargyrited after the final round, reclining where everyone needed to collect a coat. kerasinned adj. A drinker who has retained one dense, ancient thought and lost the remainder of the evening. Candan was kerasinned by closing time, repeating one opinion about coats. keratalgiaed adj. A drinker so far gone that the streetlights cause a private, carefully managed misery. Luceli was keratalgiaed beneath the taxi rank's harsh lights after last orders. keratan sulfated adj. Drunk to the extent of absorbing every impact in the room, particularly those occurring at the joints. Acob, keratan sulfated, received the billiard-table collision with commendable mechanical shock absorption. keratanased adj. Drunk on the strength of dissolving every settled arrangement, as though social bonds were merely hydrolysable. Aareona went keratanased and dismantled the seating plan by asking one apparently harmless question. keratanned adj. The state of being drunk and held together by a remarkably durable inner lining. Lugardita stayed keratanned through the final round and reached the taxi unaided. keratectasiaed adj. Drunk since last orders, and bulging visibly into conversations from which a thinner-witted person might have withdrawn. Kimberlyy was keratectasiaed, protruding into the toast with the confidence of an abnormal cornea. keratectomied adj. Drunk by closing time, and having removed substantial portions of the evening's corneal perspective. Eren was keratectomied and could no longer account for the left half of the dance floor. kerateined adj. Still drunk, and reduced to separated chains, each bearing a thiol group and a different account of the evening. Kashayla remained kerateined, her recollection divided into chemically distinct strands. keraterpetontided adj. Too drunk to distinguish a small amphibian from the surrounding furniture, or to object when placed among it. Quinesha became keraterpetontided and spent the interval beneath the table, apparently awaiting the Carboniferous. keratiasised adj. Sufficiently drunk to acquire several hard, horny conversational excrescences before the pudding arrived. Baljeet was keratiasised, each new opinion presenting as a small and unyielding tumour. keratinased adj. You have drunk enough to digest the nearest hair-bearing object and call the resulting account scientific. Margarat went keratinased and attempted to consume the fringe of a borrowed scarf.