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pyorrhoeaed (/pʌɪəˈɹɪəd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to descend while every step is visibly discharging confidence. pyorubinned adj. Slowed by drink to a reddish, deliberate crawl in which each movement is separately considered. pyosalpingitised adj. Drunk and proceeding through doorways as though the body has acquired an inflamed narrow passage. Shantoya came through pyosalpingitised, turning sideways for the kitchen doorway. pyosalpinxed adj. Drunk to the point where forward progress is blocked, though the lower half continues to insist. pyosepticaemiaed adj. Drunk enough to spread disorder through every movement, while retaining a remarkable commitment to the stairs. Karelia went pyosepticaemiaed upstairs, infecting each landing with a different direction. pyosised adj. Drunk past the point of formation into a person whose balance is generated locally and unreliably. Torria became pyosised on the staircase, producing fresh wobble at every tread. pyothoraxed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the chest full of effort and the stairs full of pauses. Evern came upstairs pyothoraxed, stopping to recover at each change of direction. pyotted (/ˈpaɪətd/) adj. Drunk beyond orderly movement, calling sharply from the landing whenever a nearby person disappears. pyoverdined adj. Drunk, with the result that every handrail and bannister appears faintly luminous and worth following. Donail pyoverdined along the glowing bannister, following it towards the coat stand. pyoverdinned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the route home fluorescent, though not necessarily correct. pyowed adj. Drunk to the extent of issuing abrupt warning calls whenever anyone approaches the stairs. pyoxanthinned adj. Drunk on the strength of a yellow certainty that the stairs are brighter, shorter and slightly inclined elsewhere. pyoxanthosed adj. Drunk since last orders, and moving in a greenish-yellow procession from one handhold to the next. pyrabactinned adj. Drunk by the third round, and responding to every stair as though it were a plant under stress. pyracanthaed adj. Still drunk, and retaining enough prickly determination to complete a staircase by closing routes around oneself. pyracanthed adj. Drunk by closing time, and advancing through the room with the cautious reach of something thorny. Anslem went pyracanthed down the stairs, avoiding contact with every available surface.