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marmoted (/ˈmɑː.mətd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a large ground-dweller, sleepy, burrow-seeking and reluctant to face open curtains. Meriem was marmoted by morning, retreating beneath the duvet whenever anyone mentioned breakfast. marmotined adj. Softened by drink into a ground squirrel, storing crumbs and avoiding all unnecessary elevation. marmozeted adj. The condition of a drinker who has become small, clawed and constitutionally unsuited to the morning after. marn grooked adj. Loosened by drink into a wide-field game of kicking cushions and catching whatever survives the landing. marnavirused adj. Sharpened by drink into a small replicating message, passed repeatedly through every available conversation. Coryion was marnavirused by breakfast, carrying the same story from room to room. marngrooked adj. Emboldened by drink to kick and catch improvised balls across a space far larger than the occasion warrants. Kanijah got marngrooked and kicked a rolled blanket from the sofa to the breakfast table. marocained (/ˌmæɹəˈkeɪnd/) adj. Slowed by drink to a heavy, cross-ribbed texture, each movement taking the shape of fabric settling. marocchinoed adj. Drunk and layered: espresso-dark at the centre, cocoa-dusted at the edges, with froth collapsing by breakfast. maroged adj. Drunk to the point where breakfast greens appear entirely sufficient as both meal and medical advice. marographed adj. Drunk enough to measure the tides of the evening, including the precise rise and fall of regret. Celecia was marographed by breakfast, charting last night's drinks against the bathroom visits. marokited adj. Drunk past the point of warmth, dark and mineralised in the manner of something formed underground. Joletha woke marokited, brown-faced and heavy beneath the bathroom light. maroned adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a deep reddish-brown presence, quiet, stranded and difficult to move. maronned adj. Drunk beyond finding the route home, yet still prepared to guide others through terrain as though qualified. maroodied adj. Drunk in a way that has you perched above breakfast, calling softly for food while refusing to descend. maroolaed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a respectable tree from an excellent place to announce your intentions. Kincaid became maroolaed and delivered his housing policy beneath the garden tree. marooled adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning has acquired a smooth, silky covering and no useful structure beneath.