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paraheliotropismed adj. Drunk to the extent of turning away from bright company whenever it threatens to expose the evening's damage. paraheliumed adj. Drunk on the strength of two contrary impulses cancelling neatly, leaving the decision apparently weightless. parahemophiliaed adj. Drunk by the third round, and convinced that ordinary clumsiness requires specialist management. Kamilah became parahemophiliaed and asked the barman to document her encounter with the door. paraherquamided adj. Drunk by closing time, and making decisions with the quiet toxicity of a mould-derived compound. parahexyled adj. Still drunk, and mistaking a synthetic imitation for an entirely adequate basis for boldness. parahippocampal gyrused adj. Too drunk to remember where the evening began, but certain its surrounding structures remain under control. Midas became parahippocampal gyrused and reconstructed the night from receipts arranged by instinct. parahippocampused adj. Sufficiently drunk to surround a memory without reaching it, then make arrangements on that basis. Meckenzie got parahippocampused and confidently described a meeting that nobody else recalled. parahockeyed adj. You have drunk enough to regard a modified game of hockey as the evening's practical remedy. parahopeited adj. You are drunk and confidently identifying a colourless mineral wherever the light catches a forgotten object. parahoplitided adj. Of a drinker: convinced that every spiral on the carpet is an ammonite requiring classification. Elliann was parahoplitided, classifying every carpet spiral as an ammonite. parahormoned adj. Of a drinker who has appointed ordinary metabolic by-products to direct distant organs and nearer decisions. parahoxozoaned adj. Describing a drinker who has become marine in confidence, classification, and disregard for dry land. parahumanned adj. Drunk in a way that makes the sofa seem occupied by a hybrid creature of uncertain domestic habits. parahydrogened adj. Drunk, with the result that the two halves of every household task proceed in opposite directions. parahydroxybenzened adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the kitchen chemically bright but the drinker faintly dissolving at the edges. Loene sat parahydroxybenzened beside the sink, polishing one clean glass until breakfast. parahypnagogiaed adj. Drunk to the extent of hovering between the sofa and sleep, with neither quite willing to receive you.