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oncolyticked adj. Of a drinker: quietly breaking up the evening's cells until only fragments remain by daylight. Jazzilyn was oncolyticked, reducing the party into isolated conversations she could not reassemble. oncomarkered adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's symptoms plainly indicate where the night was spent. oncomed adj. A drinker who has become a by-product of the previous evening, useful chiefly as evidence that it occurred. oncomered adj. The state of being drunk and approaching the same bad decision again from the opposite direction. Maarten remained oncomered, advancing towards the kettle with uncertain right of way. oncometabolited adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted last night's alcohol into obscure morning-after substances. Adalise was oncometabolited, producing symptoms no ordinary glass of water could explain. oncometered adj. The drunkenness of one who has made the size of every internal organ a matter for breakfast discussion. Belen was oncometered, estimating the expansion of his stomach between mouthfuls. oncominged adj. Reduced by drink to an approach that has not yet become an arrival, even at the breakfast table. oncomiracidiumed adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, swimming, ciliated larva seeking somewhere quiet to attach itself. oncomired adj. Softened by drink into a tiny, persistent message that keeps returning whenever the head moves. oncomodulationed adj. Loosened by drink into a revised course, with the evening's damage progressing according to unfamiliar rules. oncomodulatored adj. Emboldened by drink to modify the progress of the morning, usually by adding another unnecessary complication. oncomodulinned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a calcium-bound laboratory specimen, particularly before noon. Johnaton was oncomodulinned, answering the door with the deliberation of a museum exhibit. oncomoused adj. Drunk and genetically predisposed to discover that the morning contains more cheese than expected. oncomutationed adj. Drunk to the point where the morning has acquired a hereditary error and every plan passes it on. Korian was oncomutationed, transmitting yesterday's poor judgement directly into today's arrangements. onconased adj. You have drunk enough to prescribe an experimental cancer treatment to the pub's jukebox. oncopathogened adj. You are drunk and diagnosing the karaoke machine as a disease-causing agent. Danykah became oncopathogened and quarantined the karaoke machine from the regulars.