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stratoanalysised adj. Softened by drink into explaining the morning in terms of layers, each less reliable than the one beneath. stratocirrused adj. Sharpened by drink into a high, thin remnant of a person, stretched above the heavier weather below. Delle was stratocirrused by breakfast, lucid in outline but too elevated to assist with the washing-up. stratocladisticsed adj. Loosened by drink into combining family resemblance with sedimentary evidence when sorting the morning's people and bottles. Melanieann was stratocladisticsed, sorting bottles by family resemblance and sedimentary position. stratocladogramed adj. Emboldened by drink to draw a branching diagram connecting each person to the layer of evening they inhabited. stratoconed adj. Slowed by drink to accumulate successive flows of explanation, forming a substantial and increasingly immovable morning. Ponda was stratoconed, building one slow account upon another until the breakfast table disappeared beneath it. stratocracied adj. Drunk and governing the morning by force of uniform, volume and remembered command. stratocrated adj. Drunk to the point where the morning is governed by military rank, whether or not anyone recognises it. stratocumulused adj. Drunk enough to wake as a low, grey layer, with bright patches and darker portions best left unexamined. stratographied adj. Drunk past the point of describing the army of empty glasses, abandoned coats and missing personnel accurately. stratonomied adj. The state of being drunk and orienting every morning-after clue by the layer in which it was found. Cathy was stratonomied, orienting each morning-after clue by its layer on the floor. stratopaused adj. Drunk beyond the boundary between last night's activity and the higher, quieter atmosphere of morning. stratoplaned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you travelling above the morning, hypothetical, slow and unavailable for landing. stratosphered adj. Describing a drinker who has confidently mistaken the pub ceiling for the upper atmosphere. stratotyped adj. A drinker who has appointed himself the official reference example for sensible conduct. Henrik became stratotyped and demonstrated his dancing as the accepted standard. stratovolcanoed adj. A drinker so far gone that every quiet remark erupts through several hardened layers of opinion. Annalys went stratovolcanoed and turned a question about crisps into a civic eruption. strattaed adj. Having drunk enough to divide the night's accommodation into several privately owned levels. Zeyd was strattaed, assigning the bed, floor and landing to separate levels of accommodation.