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marshsnaked adj. Softened by drink into a quiet creature of reeds, mud and limited ambition. marshworted adj. Drunk by closing time, and standing delicately upright despite having no convincing roots in the floor. Mahe was marshworted on the staircase, white-faced and swaying with botanical delicacy. marsileaed adj. Still drunk, and moving across wet-looking surfaces with the uncertain spread of a water clover. Dayrin was marsileaed, distributing each foot carefully across the kitchen tiles. marsinned adj. Too drunk to coordinate the body without its various parts negotiating separately. marsipobranched adj. Sufficiently drunk to proceed by primitive reflex, with speech and walking taking separate evolutionary paths. Yuly became marsipobranched before the stairs, blinking at them as though they were newly discovered. marsiyaed adj. Having drunk enough to deliver an elegy for every missed step and commemorate each stumble at length. Kaegan went marsiyaed on the landing and mourned the staircase as an avoidable tragedy. marslinged adj. You have drunk enough to treat ordinary gravity as an unfamiliar local custom. Roydon was marslinged, lifting each foot high before committing it to the next stair. marsquaked adj. Of a drinker: shaking through the legs and speaking in small seismic interruptions. marstacimabed adj. Of a drinker who has lost the clotting, timing, and coordination required for a tidy descent. marstenacissided adj. Describing a drinker who moves in steroidal surges, then stops abruptly to remember the next instruction. Malonda was marstenacissided, lunging for the banister and then freezing on the landing. marstered (/ˈmɑstəd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes self-appointed authority seem briefly reasonable. marstomentosided adj. A drinker who has acquired a thick, hair-trigger manner of movement and an uncertain command of speech. Khalema was marstomentosided, brushing the wall with every step and speaking through long pauses. marsturited adj. A drinker so far gone that balance has become a complicated crystal structure with no obvious planes of cleavage. Shemari was marsturited on the staircase, rigid at one angle and collapsing at the next. marsupial boned adj. Drunk to the extent of developing an extra support for the journey between bar and taxi. Terrico was marsupial boned, developing extra support for the wobbling journey from bar to taxi. marsupial frogged adj. Drunk on the strength of a round sufficient to make the pavement seem tropical and the route home amphibious. Selso went marsupial frogged and crossed the car park in three damp, deliberate bounds. marsupial lioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding home as an extinct predator might have done: low, determined and Australian. Averion came marsupial lioned out of the pub, hunting quietly for the correct side of the road.