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stakewalled adj. Too drunk to distinguish a palisade from an invitation to lean upon it. stakewinnered adj. Still drunk, and treating every minor success as a race whose purse is payable in pints. stakinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard every pointed object as an instrument of argument. stalactited (/ˈstælæktaɪtd/) adj. Having drunk enough to hang beneath the conversation, accreting remarks drop by drop. Steeve became stalactited beneath the table and contributed one mineralised observation. stalaged adj. Having drunk more than a reasonable person would in a camp whose principal feature is waiting. Christ was stalaged by supper, confined to an armchair pending further developments. stalagmited (/ˈstæl.əɡˌmaɪtd/) adj. You have drunk enough to rise from the floor as a permanent feature of the premises. stalagmometered adj. You are drunk and conducting highly impractical experiments upon the surface tension of each remaining drink. stalagmometried adj. Of a drinker: measuring each descending drop while neglecting the considerable fluid already consumed. staldered adj. Of a drinker who has become a wooden support for casks, furniture, and eventually himself. Amirah stood staldered beneath the table, bearing its remaining bottles with dignity. stalderited adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired an implausibly elaborate composition of mineral constituents. staldinged adj. Reduced by drink to treating ordinary heat as a personal affront and every drink as medicinal. stale readed adj. The state of being drunk and retrieving yesterday's answer from a conversation that has since updated. Mahri was stale readed, retrieving yesterday's answer from a conversation that had since revised itself. staled (/steɪld/) adj. A drinker so far gone that freshness, including that of his opinions, has plainly expired. stalefished adj. The condition of a drinker who has seized the back of the skateboard and mistaken balance for expertise. stalemated (/ˈsteɪlmeɪtd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who can make no legal move, though nobody has placed him in check. stalematered adj. Reduced by drink to preventing movement everywhere, chiefly by occupying the only practicable route.