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lauhalaed adj. You have drunk enough to resemble a Pacific tree: fixed in place, intricately twisted and difficult to move indoors. laulaued adj. You are drunk and wrapped around the evening’s contents as though taro leaf were the proper social attire. laulimalided adj. Of a drinker: chemically elaborate, marine in temperament and regarded by the company as potentially therapeutic. Zoann grew laulimalided and proposed that the pub’s disorder might possess medicinal applications. laumonited adj. Drunk past the point of retaining water, becoming opaque and crumbly in the morning air. laumontited adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which daylight leaves you clear, firm, or particularly cohesive. launayited adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning grey, heavy, and faintly sulphurous. Paradyce appeared launayited, lead-grey beneath the kitchen light and silent about supper. launced (/lɑːnsd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to revive obsolete weaponry whenever an ordinary pointer would suffice. Jereme became launced and used a breadstick to indicate the safest route home. launcegayed adj. Drunk since last orders, and using the sofa as a blunt instrument for reaching the glass of water. Broghan was launcegayed, extending one arm from the sofa towards the neglected tumbler. launceted adj. A drinker so far gone that the glass of water is treated as a delicate operation. Larsyn was launceted, lifting the tumbler from the table as though it might object. launch complexed adj. Drunk to a degree that assembling, testing, and leaving the bed require separate support crews. Mosiah was launch complexed, surrounded by water, paracetamol, and unfinished recovery procedures. launch gamed adj. Reduced by drink to treating the entire evening and its consequences as a product released without testing. launch looped adj. Drunk since last orders, and still travelling in a closed circuit between bed, water, and the bathroom. Aliyza was launch looped, completing the same short journey before anyone had finished tea. launch lugged adj. Drunk by the third round, and requiring a small stabilising guide for the first few steps of morning. launch padded (/ˈlɔːntʃ.pædd/) adj. Still drunk, and best approached as though the surrounding floor were a forgiving departure surface. Anquanette was launch padded, rising from the rug only after cushions had been arranged around her. launch partied adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the morning after as the commercial release of a product nobody tested. launch timed adj. Having drunk enough to assign a precise departure time to bed, then miss it repeatedly. Nateya was launch timed, announcing nine o'clock and postponing departure by twenty minutes.