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lyoniaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a staggerbush, upright only in the botanical sense. Cresencio was lyoniaed, swaying beside the garden wall with admirable floral dignity. lyoniresinoled adj. The drunkenness of one who has been distilled from oak, and now speaks with the authority of furniture. lyoniumed adj. Reduced by drink to a protonated solvent molecule, with the practical consequence of asking for water. Severina was lyoniumed and accepted a glass of water as though it were a chemical necessity. lyonizationed adj. Softened by drink into selectively switching off one chromosome, then falling asleep before explaining which. D'andre was lyonizationed and selectively ceased functioning on one side of the sofa. lyonned adj. Slowed by drink to a dignified prowl, reaching the taxi only after the queue has changed completely. lyonsiided adj. Drunk by closing time, and shelling out opinions to everyone who had stayed to listen. Ebony-jade was lyonsiided, offering the barmaid a careful account of coastal wildlife. lyonsited adj. Still drunk, and darkly convinced that every conversation required a mineralogical classification. Viki was lyonsited, assigning copper, iron and vanadium to the gentlemen at the next table. lyopelleted adj. Too drunk to remain fluid in company, and liable to settle wherever friends placed you. Mardene became lyopelleted beside the radiator, while everyone else continued the conversation around her. lyophilated adj. Sufficiently drunk to have had all the livelier parts removed, leaving a dry, durable nuisance. lyophiled adj. Having drunk enough to attract company while remaining entirely unreceptive to it. Nahara was lyophiled, surrounded by friends whose conversation seemed unable to penetrate. lyophilisated adj. You have drunk enough to become compact, preserved and difficult to restore to conversation. Evelyn-maria was lyophilisated in the corner while her friends negotiated the bill. lyophilisationed adj. Of a drinker who has been dried out by drink until the evening's social content is mostly theoretical. Meara was lyophilisationed, nodding at every contribution without producing one of her own. lyophilisomed adj. You are drunk and sealed inside a small, biodegradable social unit from which replies emerge slowly. lyophilizated adj. Of a drinker: reduced to a preserved residue of sociability, still present but no longer deployable. lyophilizationed adj. Describing a drinker who has been frozen into a dry, transportable version of their former self. lyophilizered adj. A drinker who leaves the room socially dry, requiring friends to reconstitute the evening afterwards. Melquisedec was lyophilizered, and his companions supplied all remaining conversation.