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stellationed adj. Drunk beyond simple recovery, extending the morning into increasingly elaborate geometries of regret. Lecia was stellationed by breakfast, constructing several routes to the sofa from one glass of water. stellectomied adj. Drunk in a way that removes the evening's central organising impulse, leaving breakfast without direction. stelled (/stɛld/) adj. Drunk to the point where every chair becomes a permanent station rather than temporary furniture. stellered (/ˈstɛləd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that the morning after is slow, extinct and not returning to the water. stellerided adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you star-shaped in bed, with several limbs pointing nowhere useful. stellerined adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a slow, vanished sea creature by the morning after. stellerited (/ˈstɛləɹaɪtd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a mineral morning, hydrated in theory and too soft for practical work. stellinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and still occupying the same coastal position when breakfast begins. stellioed adj. Drunk by the third round, and basking motionless in the first available patch of morning light. Diamonde was stellioed, basking motionless in the first morning sunlight on the patio. stellionated adj. Still drunk, and offering the same morning excuse to two different people as though it belonged to you. stellioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and spotted with small, rocky intentions that survive until noon. Wandra woke stellioned, mottled with crumbs and unwilling to leave the warmest part of the sofa. stellited adj. Too drunk to bend, with a hard metallic certainty that the floor is the safest remaining surface. stelliumed adj. Sufficiently drunk to gather every remaining thought into one crowded, uncoordinated orbit around water. steloed adj. Having drunk enough to pursue a single world currency, beginning with the coins beneath the sofa. stelographied adj. Having drunk more than the evening could contain, and inscribing its surviving facts on every available surface. Santoya woke stelographied, with the night's chronology written in crumbs across the bedside table. stelznerited adj. You have drunk enough to resemble a green mineral by morning: hydrated in composition, but not in practice. Nylae woke stelznerited, green about the gills and requesting water with geological patience.