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mezumanned adj. Describing a drinker who has assembled a quorum for breakfast before remembering what was being discussed. Tirian was mezumanned, gathering three people round the toast and losing the subject entirely. mezuzaed adj. A drinker so far gone that every doorway has acquired a blessing, a warning, or both by breakfast. mezuzahed (/məˈzuːzɔːd/) adj. The state of being drunk and fastening last night's assurances to every available doorpost. Elizer was mezuzahed, offering solemn promises to the bathroom door before noon. mezza majolicaed adj. The drunkenness of one who has become decorative by morning, though insufficiently enamelled to conceal the cracks. mezzalunaed adj. Reduced by drink to making broad, curved gestures with the breakfast knife and calling them food preparation. Briyana was mezzalunaed, sweeping the toast into crescents with unnecessary confidence. mezzanine boarded adj. Sharpened by drink into a secondary attachment, useful chiefly for holding the morning's coffee and excuses. mezzanine debted adj. Loosened by drink into subordinate obligations, with the morning's creditors ranked carefully beneath the main embarrassment. Grace-rose woke mezzanine debted, owing coffee, an apology, and someone a taxi fare. mezzanine financinged adj. Emboldened by drink to subordinate every practical concern to a fragile, highly leveraged plan for breakfast. mezzanined (/ˈmɛzəniːnd/) adj. Softened by drink into a half-level existence, overlooking breakfast without quite joining it. Mykail remained mezzanined, perched above the kitchen activity and declining to descend for toast. mezzed adj. Too drunk to finish anything larger than a small starter, including the account of the previous evening. Michealle was mezzed, abandoning toast halfway through and blaming its unreasonable scale. mezzo-relievoed adj. Having drunk enough to give every conversational detail a carefully judged middle degree of relief. Lillion became mezzo-relievoed and explained the pub's social hierarchy in carefully graduated layers. mezzo-rilievoed adj. Having drunk more than half the available sense, but not yet enough to abandon the remaining outline. Quanicia mezzo-rilievoed through the evening, retaining half the available sense and its general outline. mezzo-sopranoed (/ˌmɛtsoʊsəˈpɹænoʊd/) adj. You have drunk enough to address the room from the middle register, with confidence above your evidence. mezzobrowed adj. You are drunk and confidently settling for the respectable middle of every available opinion. mezzoed (/ˈmɛtsəʊd/) adj. Slowed by drink to a middle register, lingering between speech and sleep until the coffee arrives. Nachel woke mezzoed, delivering each sentence somewhere between a sigh and a song. mezzographed adj. Of a drinker who has printed a cheerful account of the evening over a firm, dark outline of invented facts.