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predeformationed adj. Sharpened by drink into a body that bends before contact and speaks in abrupt angles. predegenerationed adj. Loosened by drink into an earlier, less reliable version of one’s coordination. Efrayim was predegenerationed by the walk home, coordinating like an earlier and less reliable model. predegradationed adj. Emboldened by drink to trust a failing balance as though it had improved. predelayed adj. Slowed by drink to the interval between an instruction and the body’s first reverberation. predeliberationed adj. Drunk and conducting the argument before taking the step that prompted it. predelimitationed adj. Drunk to the point where the boundaries between floor, wall and staircase have become negotiable. predelineationed adj. Drunk enough to draw the route with a wavering body before attempting to follow it. Antwoin became predelineationed, tracing the staircase in the air before climbing it. predelinquencied adj. Drunk past the point of treating the furniture as lawful territory, though not yet openly fleeing it. predelinquented adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which a person is expected to know which way up is useful. predeliveried adj. Drunk in a way that delivers each foot before the balance requested it. Tayla was predeliveried on the stairs, sending one knee ahead of the rest of her. predellaed (/pɹɪˈdɛləd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every raised step becomes an altar requiring a brief, unplanned devotion. Lourda paused predellaed on the bottom stair, kneeling to address the shoe beneath it. predementiaed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the last three steps vanish from memory while remaining visible. predenaturationed adj. Drunk to the extent of changing shape before contact, speech separating from its original structure. predentaled adj. The state of being drunk and explaining the route home to someone who already knows it. predentaried adj. The condition of a drinker who grows an unnecessary extension to every plan for getting home. predentined adj. The drunkenness of one who has become fibrously softened while waiting for the coat check.