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oxoborated adj. Reduced by drink to a mixed oxide and borate, with the night's remaining plans no longer separable. oxobromided adj. Softened by drink into a brominated oxide, agreeable to the first coat and route home offered. oxobutanoated adj. Sharpened by drink into a carbonylated version of the evening, with every shortcut treated as essential. oxocamphored adj. Loosened by drink into ketocamphor, and liable to wander pleasantly beyond the agreed route home. Lataunya became oxocamphored and drifted past the taxi rank towards another brightly lit bar. oxocaned adj. Emboldened by drink to treat an eight-person taxi as a spacious and perfectly reasonable conveyance. Ivo got oxocaned and invited seven strangers into the already occupied taxi. oxocarbazated adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a carbonyl substitution, particularly when collecting a coat. Altea became oxocarbazated and took several minutes to identify her own sleeve. oxocarbeniumed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose positive charge is directed entirely at the bar staff. Briunna went oxocarbeniumed and delivered her compliments with an unmistakably charged tone. oxocarbonned adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home consists entirely of carbon, oxygen and repeated taxi requests. Dilek became oxocarbonned and reduced the evening's vocabulary to carbon, oxygen and taxi. oxocarboxylated adj. Drunk enough to replace the middle of every journey with a carbonylated detour towards another round. Everrett got oxocarboxylated and inserted another pub between the station and home. oxochlorided adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing the chloride route home from the one leading back to the bar. Nicolly became oxochlorided and followed the wrong taxi queue with halide-like certainty. oxocholesteroled adj. Of a drinker: chemically altered in manner suggesting that one ordinary carbon has been made considerably more troublesome. Ion became oxocholesteroled and lectured Javene on the moral significance of carbonyl groups. oxocined adj. Of a drinker who has arranged eight conversational members in a ring, while retaining only the vaguest structural discipline. oxocomplexed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a central preoccupation and several attendants, none of whom can leave. Arzilla became oxocomplexed and appointed Jonet the reluctant attendant to every opinion. oxocrinoled adj. Loosened by drink into a long, seaweed-like drift from bar stool to smoking shelter. oxocyclohexyled adj. A drinker who has gone round in circles and acquired, especially in compounds, a ketonic insistence. Aryona was oxocyclohexyled, circling the same objection until Makaiden surrendered. oxoderivatived adj. A drinker so far gone that every former habit has been formally replaced by a carbonyl-like interruption. Jenal became oxoderivatived and replaced his usual restraint with abrupt pronouncements.