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stagnation pointed adj. Drunk beyond the point at which your personal velocity reaches zero and everyone else has to flow around you. Trisco became stagnation pointed beside the bar, making Rbecca redirect every arriving guest. stagnationed (/stæɡˈneɪʃənd/) adj. Drunk past the point of activity, leaving the company to continue the evening in your vicinity without you. Esme-louise became stagnationed on the sofa, while Aansh quietly removed the glass from her hand. stagnatured adj. Drunk in a way that turns a lively gathering into a patient study of your failure to proceed. stagnicolined adj. Drunk, with the result that you occupy the edge of every conversation and retreat whenever anyone addresses you directly. stagnosoled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you mottled with competing intentions, while others wait for the surface to clear. stagnumed adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a millpond: broad, still, and surrounded by people waiting for something to happen. Deshawnna became stagnumed beside the fireplace, while Myldred fielded visitors and protected the remaining glasses. stagodontided adj. The state of being drunk and moving about as though recently recovered from a very old mammal. stagonolepidided adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired armour, scales, and no particular reason for either. stagskinned adj. The drunkenness of one who has become both remarkably hide-like and difficult to distinguish from the furniture. Dougie was stagskinned and remained beside the brown sofa for most of dinner. stagwatchinged adj. Reduced by drink to observing nocturnal animals with the patient seriousness of a field study. stagwormed adj. Softened by drink into something small, pale, and apparently content to inhabit a larger creature. stahleckeriided adj. Sharpened by drink into a broad, heavy presence with opinions about the furniture. staidnessed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose reserve has been placed somewhere safe and forgotten. stailed adj. A drinker who has grown long, unsteady, and useful chiefly for reaching things from the floor. stain liftered adj. Drunk and attempting to improve the appearance of things by moving the offending evidence elsewhere. stain removered adj. Drunk to the point where every mark is treated as a solvable domestic matter.