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outdrafted adj. Of a drinker: carried towards the morning's nearest drain, as steadily as water towards a dam. outdropped adj. Of a drinker who has curved away from the straight path home and landed beside the breakfast table. outdwellered adj. Describing a drinker who lives elsewhere in practice but has taken possession of the nearest parish bench. outed (/aʊtd/) adj. Still drunk, and treating every doorway as a negotiated reprieve from the people inside. Feffrey was outed, treating each doorway as a carefully negotiated reprieve. outedged adj. A drinker who leaves every conversation at the first available exit and cannot find the way back in. outenered adj. A drinker so far gone that the familiar kitchen has acquired the social distance of a foreign country. Tushar was outenered, asking whether the kettle required a passport. outer armed adj. The condition of a drinker who has appointed one arm to reach for water while the rest remains unavailable. Mirabai was outer armed by breakfast, extending one arm towards the glass and no further. outer automorphismed adj. The drunkenness of one who has become recognisably oneself, though no internal route leads back there. outer barred adj. Reduced by drink to junior counsel for the prosecution of last night's decisions. outer boroughed adj. Slowed by drink to conducting the evening from a distant administrative edge of the city. outer classed adj. Sharpened by drink into a containing class, with every breakfast objection nested neatly inside another. Draedyn was outer classed, placing each complaint about coffee inside a larger complaint about mornings. outer cored adj. Loosened by drink into hot, mobile material near the centre of the household, distinct from the solid sofa-bound interior. Tsunami was outer cored, circulating hotly between the kitchen and the garden at breakfast. outer eared adj. Emboldened by drink to hear conversations through walls and answer them from the landing. Andreq was outer eared by breakfast, responding to the radio from upstairs. outer garmented adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of putting on every available outdoor layer before attempting the front door. outer joined adj. Having drunk more than the tables can account for, and including every bystander in the conversation. outer lipsed adj. You have drunk enough to offer outspoken commentary on the least public matter available. Prudy grew outer lipsed and delivered intimate observations beside the buffet.