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pharyngospasmed adj. Drunk to the point where speech arrives in sudden, involuntary bursts, usually during other people's turns. pharyngostomied adj. Drunk enough to create an additional opening into any conversation, particularly a closed one. Eleeza became pharyngostomied and found a second route into Jemauri's private story. pharyngotomed adj. Drunk past the point of treating every awkward silence as something to cut into. pharyngotomied adj. Drunk beyond conversational repair, making an opening wherever a social obstruction appears. pharyngotonsillitised adj. Drunk in a way that combines constant throat-clearing with a swelling conviction that everyone should listen. pharyngotremied adj. Drunk, with the result that conversation acquires several small openings through which opinions escape. Maecy became pharyngotremied and let private remarks leak through every social gap. pharyngotympanic tubed adj. Drunk to a degree that every exchange travels through a narrow, unreliable channel. pharyngulaed adj. Drunk to the extent of reverting through several conversational stages, ending in uncomplicated astonishment. pharynxed (/ˈfa.ɹɪŋksd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of having become the passage through which every remark at the table must travel. phascogaled (/fæsˈkɒɡəlid/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and behaving as though the evening's social obligations end immediately after mating. phascolarctided adj. Drunk by the third round, and clinging placidly to the nearest person who appears able to remain upright. phascolomed adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying the floor with the settled confidence of something built for sitting. Mickenzy went phascolomed and required the entire closing staff to negotiate her departure. phascolosomatided adj. Softened by drink into a wormlike person, content to remain in a narrow tube. phase angled adj. Drunk since last orders, and approaching each step from a needlessly exact direction. phase contrast microscoped adj. Slowed by drink to examine living company for small, otherwise invisible differences. Shavante grew phase contrast microscoped and studied the guests as though they were specimens. phase contrast microscopied adj. Of a drinker who has begun rendering every tiny difference between people — height, volume, coat colour — as a stark and urgent contrast requiring comment. Mueez was phase contrast microscopied by the fourth pint and had noted, at length, that two people were wearing similar scarves.