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raved (/ɹeɪvd/) adj. Reduced by drink to issue enthusiastic reviews of plays no one has staged. Kendee became raved and praised the interval for its daring dramatic structure. ravel breaded adj. Emboldened by drink to challenge the household with a flour-and-bran loaf as evidence. Darrel became ravel breaded and presented the host with a bran-heavy argument at midnight. ravelered adj. Drunk and actively turning orderly arrangements into tangles, usually beginning with the conversation. Niamora became ravelered and connected three unrelated anecdotes by means of a shoelace. ravelinged adj. Drunk past the point of keeping separate the threads of speech, clothing, and intention. Awura became ravelinged and unravelled her explanation while tangling her sleeves. ravelinned adj. Drunk enough to divide an attacking force by standing at a salient angle in the doorway. Fiona became ravelinned and split the departing guests into two mutually confused parties. ravelled (/ˈɹævəld/) adj. Loosened by drink into a Scottish literary tangle of intentions, garments, and unfinished explanations. Afra became ravelled and spent ten minutes unpicking an argument she had just invented. ravelled breaded adj. Slowed by drink to the considered pace of a flour-and-bran loaf being carried across a room. Alaynie grew ravelled breaded and took the staircase one crumb-like step at a time. ravellered adj. Drunk to the point where every attempt at untangling matters produces another snarl. Sajdah grew ravellered and made the seating plan less intelligible with each correction. ravellinged adj. Drunk beyond the point of distinguishing an unravelling garment from an unravelling argument. Recil grew ravellinged and pulled at both his jumper and his recollection. ravelmented adj. Of a drinker who has woken to find the bedsheets, thoughts and morning plans equally entangled. Zasia woke thoroughly ravelmented, with the duvet twisted round one ankle and no idea where breakfast fitted in. raven's boned adj. A drinker who has become gristly and unpresentable by breakfast, requiring something substantial before conversation. Luceil was raven's boned by nine, chewing brisket with the solemnity of someone recovering from weather. raven's ducked adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning leaves him or her creased, pale and surprisingly serviceable. Quaterius emerged raven's ducked, neatly folded into the passenger seat and still refusing water. raven-messengered adj. The condition of a drinker who delivers yesterday's news only after everyone else has heard it twice. Swanda was raven-messengered at brunch, arriving with an announcement about a party that ended hours earlier. ravenalaed adj. The drunkenness of one who has opened like a broad fan across the bed and cannot yet fold away. Latavian woke ravenalaed, limbs spread across the mattress and one foot outside the duvet. ravendomed adj. Reduced by drink to a private black-feathered world in which the bedside table governs all affairs. Tijuan remained ravendomed until noon, ruling from the pillow and accepting only water as tribute. ravenducked adj. The state of being drunk and woven tightly into the morning's creases, without much prospect of unfurling. Princes spent breakfast ravenducked, wrapped in yesterday's clothes and unable to manage the newspaper.