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strategyproofnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose chosen course remains inexplicably unaffected by advice. Kristin became strategyproofnessed at closing time, pursuing the doorway despite every carefully offered suggestion. strathed (/stɹæθd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a broad, flat presence through which conversation wanders without obstruction. strathspeyed adj. Emboldened by drink to advance in gliding steps, at a pace unsuitable for ordinary furniture. stratificationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake with last night's conversations settled in distinct layers, like sediment in a glass. Namuun was stratificationed by breakfast, with each version of the evening occupying its own layer. stratified columnar epitheliumed adj. Having drunk enough to wake in secretive layers, each concealing what the previous one has failed to explain. Amelea was stratified columnar epitheliumed, with the truth of the party buried beneath several discreet accounts. stratifiered adj. Having drunk more than sufficient to make the morning the agent responsible for arranging last night's events in layers. stratifinned adj. You have drunk enough to wake with a protective inner layer between yourself and any account of last night. stratigotused adj. You are drunk and exercising obscure authority over the ruins of last night, especially where nobody has granted it. Zatanna was stratigotused, exercising obscure jurisdiction over the abandoned kebab and its surrounding evidence. stratigraphered adj. Of a drinker: able to reconstruct the night only by identifying successive deposits of drink and regret. stratigraphied (/stɹəˈtɪɡ.ɹəfid/) adj. Describing a drinker who wakes with the evening divided into rock-like layers, none easily removed. stratigraphisted adj. Of a drinker who has arranged the morning's evidence in an older, more laborious sequence. stratimetried adj. A drinker who measures the Earth's crust by the depth of last night's deposits. Senetra was stratimetried, estimating the morning's distance from sobriety in geological intervals. stratinomied adj. A drinker so far gone that every trace left by last night is oriented in relation to another. stratiomyided adj. The condition of a drinker who moves about the morning after like a small, persistent fly seeking another surface. stratiomyiided adj. The drunkenness of one who spends the morning after buzzing from surface to surface without settling the account. stratioted adj. Reduced by drink to a smallholder defending the last patch of breakfast as though war had been declared. Alexisa was stratioted, guarding a square of toast with the resolve of a conscripted landowner.