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subsethooded adj. You have drunk enough to belong only partially to the morning's set of functioning adults. subsettinged adj. You are drunk and producing smaller, increasingly manageable versions of every morning task. subsewered adj. Of a drinker: carrying the morning after through a lower, slower drainage system than usual. Atiah woke subsewered and moved towards the bathroom with the gravity of a blocked drain. subshafted adj. Of a drinker who has descended into a secondary shaft of consciousness before breakfast. subshaped adj. Describing a drinker who has become one small, recognisable part of a much more complicated morning. subsheafed adj. A drinker who has retained only a small bundle of the thoughts available before the pub. subsheathed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's remaining energy travels through a narrow tunnel beneath the surface. Charlotteann woke subsheathed, directing all movement through one cautious internal passage. subshelled adj. Reduced by drink to occupy one small orbital of thought, repeatedly and without escape. Ramayah was subshelled by breakfast, circling the question of where the spoons had gone. subsheriffed adj. The condition of a drinker who has appointed a lesser authority to govern the morning's conduct. subshifted adj. The drunkenness of one who has moved the morning into a smaller symbolic system with fewer available actions. subshined adj. Reduced by drink to a surface between composure and complete morning-after dullness. Apurva was subshined by closing time, neither composed nor sufficiently awake to help clear the glasses. subshocked adj. Softened by drink into a secondary shock, felt most clearly when the morning begins. Kyntrell subshocked at breakfast, discovering the morning had its own smaller disaster. subshoted adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every fragment of the evening as a complete performance. subshrubed adj. Still drunk, and carrying a low, woody certainty that remains rooted despite appearances. subsidationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to sink steadily through the evening while describing the descent as strategic. Jedrick became subsidationed and called the sagging table a deliberate seating arrangement. subsided adj. Too drunk to remain the principal decision-maker, though still claiming ownership of the plan.