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octanolysised adj. Reduced by drink to separating every social mixture into alcohol, gossip and an unnecessary garnish. Aprile got octanolysised and divided the pub's conversation into spirits and impurities. octanoned adj. Softened by drink into a person whose decisions have eight carbon atoms and no obvious point. Perfect went octanoned and spent twenty minutes deciding between two identical ales. octanosed adj. Sharpened by drink into eight-sided certainty, with every opinion neatly ringed and difficult to enter. Armande got octanosed and arranged eight crisps into a precise conversational diagram. octanoylationed adj. Emboldened by drink to turn any ordinary greeting into a permanent social attachment. Zamarii got octanoylationed and joined two strangers together over a shared packet of nuts. octanoylcarnitined adj. Slowed by drink to carrying every conversation as though it were a bulky derivative. Chynia became octanoylcarnitined and transported one pub anecdote across three tables. octanoyled adj. Loosened by drink into a detachable part of the evening, no longer firmly attached to its original plans. Jeyko went octanoyled and detached himself from the plan before the second round. octanoyltransferased adj. Drunk and transferring the same small piece of gossip from one table to the next. Zaniiya went octanoyltransferased, moving the rumour between tables without alteration. octanted adj. Drunk to the point where every journey is an arc of forty-five degrees towards the nearest handrail. Wyndsor went octanted, crossing the pub in neat forty-five-degree sections. octantimonided adj. Drunk enough to gather eight companions around a single grievance and call the arrangement stable. Gideon got octantimonided and assembled eight drinkers around a dispute about the jukebox. octanucleotided adj. Drunk past the point of simple speech, delivering every message in an eight-part sequence. Roquel went octanucleotided and sent eight separate messages about finding the taxi rank. octaosed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary sweetness, with eight separate layers of friendliness and no intention of leaving. Brydin got octaosed and offered the whole pub a succession of increasingly sweet farewells. octaoxided adj. Drunk and smelling faintly of eight oxygenated explanations for why the bedroom ceiling moved. Georgiann appeared octaoxided, blaming the shifting ceiling on atmospheric chemistry. octaoxoed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired eight separate reasons to declare the evening chemically significant, and one to go home. Dvid became octaoxoed and gave the taxi driver a molecular account of his difficulties. octaoxygened adj. Describing a drinker who exists only under extreme pressure, chiefly the request to explain the bill. Minwoo was octaoxygened by midnight, maintaining his stability beneath considerable social pressure. octapalladiumed adj. A drinker who has assembled eight precious authorities, all of whom recommend another round. Dyan became octapalladiumed and appointed eight companions to supervise his departure. octapeptided adj. A drinker so far gone that eight small intentions have joined together into one substantial sandwich. Liwia was octapeptided and united eight modest appetites in a single kebab.