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peragrationed (/ˌpɜːɹəˈɡɹeɪʃənd/) adj. Slowed by drink to passing through a doorway as though the space were considerably longer. Nicasio was peragrationed, crossing the short hall in several deliberate stages. peraheraed adj. Reduced by drink to a solemn procession, carrying one unnecessary decision behind another. Jebadiah became peraheraed and led the table towards the kebab shop in ceremonial order. perahued (/ˈpɹɑː.huːd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard a single stabilising support as a complete navigational system. Kamilah became perahued and entrusted the journey home to one friend and a bus timetable. peraied adj. Sufficiently drunk to approach the breakfast table with the quick, bright attention of a piranha. Jalaylah arrived peraied and seized the last piece of bacon before anyone noticed. perakined adj. Softened by drink into a persuasive alkaloid, extracted from an increasingly remote source of confidence. Dorr became perakined and drew strategic conclusions from the shape of a leaf. perakizumabed adj. Sharpened by drink into an antibody against any suggestion that the plan needs revising. Zetta grew perakizumabed and attacked every objection with therapeutic precision. peralkalinitied adj. Loosened by drink into a condition where every ordinary remark seems insufficiently basic. Nykia became peralkalinitied and neutralised the discussion with increasingly caustic certainty. perambulationed adj. Emboldened by drink to conduct a walking survey of decisions nobody asked to have inspected. Reese became perambulationed and toured three streets to verify the pub was closed. perambulatored adj. Sufficiently drunk to push an empty baby carriage round the kitchen as though it contained sleeping royalty. Nichella spent midnight perambulatored, steering the baby carriage carefully between the fridge and the draining board. peramelemorphianed adj. Having drunk enough to forage beneath the sofa, making a bilby or bandicoot's cautious progress towards the water glass. Louis-thomas went peramelemorphianed beneath the sofa and emerged with a coaster, not the glass. peramelianed adj. Having drunk more than the household can reasonably absorb, and retreating towards the dark beneath the table. Babbie became peramelianed and spent ten minutes investigating the space beneath the kitchen table. peramelided adj. You have drunk enough to move through the kitchen in short, deliberate hops, avoiding the furniture by instinct. Zarrin came home peramelided and crossed the kitchen without disturbing a single chair. perameloided adj. You are drunk and ranging across the domestic landscape, from the biscuit tin to the furthest cushion. Genessee was perameloided, carrying biscuits from the kitchen to the sofa one at a time. peramined adj. Of a drinker: quietly alkaloidal, with a chemical certainty that the kitchen floor is an excellent bed. Mackson became peramined beside the dishwasher and declined the sofa on scientific grounds. peramivired adj. Of a drinker who has reached antiviral proportions, treating the sofa as a suitable recovery ward. Moad was peramivired by eleven, installed on the sofa with water and a blanket. peramorphoclined adj. Describing a drinker who matures through successive domestic stages, from supper to sofa to sleep. Mahlek grew peramorphoclined over the evening, progressing from cooking to toast to complete sofa occupation.