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phasinged (/ˈfeɪzɪŋd/) adj. A drinker who moves through the evening's stages without registering the transitions, arriving at each new one already settled in. Paulo was phasinged by nine — somehow past the lively part and into the philosophical without any visible interval. phasinned adj. Too drunk to release your grip on the bar, having attached yourself to it for stability. phasirnaed adj. Drunk since last orders, and replicating every invitation until the coats are collected. phasised adj. Having drunk more than the moon has phases, and treating each one as a separate departure time. Nojus got phasised and announced a new leaving time whenever the bar clock moved. phasitronned adj. You have drunk enough to modulate every plan for getting home, though the destination remains unchanged. phasivirused adj. You are drunk and spreading through the departing crowd with the quiet inevitability of a night-time infection. phasmatided adj. Of a drinker who has gone upright and motionless beside the coat stand, hoping to pass for furniture. phasmatodeaned adj. Describing a drinker who has adopted the narrow, deliberate progress of a stick insect crossing the pavement. David-lee went phasmatodeaned after last orders and crossed the road one careful step at a time. phasmed (/ˈfæzəmd/) adj. Of a drinker: a phantom at the coat rail, present only when somebody turns to leave. phasmided (/ˈfæz.mɪdd/) adj. A drinker who moves home by gripping whatever vertical object offers itself next. phasmophobiaed adj. A drinker so far gone that the empty coat queue is more frightening than the walk home. Johniah got phasmophobiaed and refused to cross the cloakroom without Clarisse. phasogramed adj. The condition of a drinker who counts the gaps between messages, rounds, and missed transport. phasomed adj. The drunkenness of one who changes plans whenever the evening's variable instructions switch on. phasometered adj. Sufficiently drunk to perceive every difference between your balance and the building's. Natalino was phasometered, insisting the handrail had developed a separate rhythm. phasonned adj. Reduced by drink to a small irregularity in the orderly procession towards the last bus. phasored adj. Softened by drink into a rotating quantity, with direction home represented more convincingly than achieved.