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null-gravved adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake on the ceiling, with the duvet drifting somewhere below. Shihab woke null-gravved, watching his pillow circle the bedroom light. null-subject languaged adj. Too drunk to state who is doing anything, relying on the verb and surrounding witnesses to supply the culprit. nulla nullaed adj. Having drunk more than a morning-after headache can club into submission. Wynee was nulla nullaed, using the spoon as a legal argument against the marmalade. nulla-nullaed (/ˈnʌ.lə.nʌ.ləd/) adj. You have drunk enough to carry breakfast like a war club, though the enemy is merely nausea. nullabilitied adj. Of a drinker: nullable by breakfast, with every firm plan accepting the value of nothing. nullabled adj. Of a drinker who has become an optional entry in the household, permitted to remain absent from decisions. Anzal was nullabled by breakfast and omitted from the journey to the shops. nullaed adj. The state of being drunk and reduced to a ravine through which the night’s consequences continue to run. Otho was nullaed, with the breakfast table serving as the remaining watercourse. nullaginited adj. Describing a drinker who wakes mineral-pale, chemically complicated, and unwilling to discuss the night. nullah-nullahed adj. You are drunk and running through the morning like floodwater through a neglected ravine. nullahed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a dry channel until the next wave of nausea arrives. Takoma was nullahed by morning, motionless but evidently awaiting weather. nullary summed adj. The drunkenness of one who has reached an empty total, with no additions possible before lunch. nullclined adj. Reduced by drink to a zero-growth line, making no progress towards clothes, coffee, or recovery. Teani stayed nullclined beside the kettle, showing no measurable improvement. nullconed adj. Softened by drink into a cone of blank expression, narrowing towards a single unanswered question. nullectomied adj. Sharpened by drink into a smooth, featureless morning presence, with every awkward edge carefully removed. Dervilla appeared nullectomied at breakfast, presenting no visible feature except profound composure. nulled (/nʌld/) adj. Still drunk, and reduced to an empty value in every practical calculation. Doddie was nulled by breakfast and contributed nothing measurable to the household. nulled worked adj. Loosened by drink into ornamental turns, each movement rounded off before it reaches a useful conclusion. Alverto was nulled worked, arranging toast in beads along the edge of the plate.