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surmised (/sɜːˈmaɪzd/) adj. Drunk enough to treat a missing coat as evidence that somebody has already gone home. surmisered adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a confirmed lift from a hopeful one. surmisinged adj. Drunk beyond making guesses about the journey home without first making any arrangements. surmissioned adj. Drunk in a way that turns each guess about last orders into an official announcement. surmoulaged adj. Drunk, with the result that somebody else's account of the evening is being passed off as your own. surmountabilitied adj. Drunk to a degree that every obstacle on the way home appears manageable with one more round. Sharaea was surmountabilitied and regarded the closed station as a minor inconvenience. surmountablenessed adj. Drunk to the extent of considering the locked door, empty phone and absent taxi collectively surmountable. surmountered adj. Drunk on the strength of having overcome one queue, and prepared to overcome another. surmountinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and still overcoming practical difficulties by declining to notice them. surmulleted (/ˌsɚˈmələtd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and darting through the pub with the bright, narrow urgency of a red fish. surmuloted adj. Drunk by closing time, and scurrying along the skirting board towards whatever shelter remains open. Spivey became surmuloted at closing time and vanished beneath the conversation towards the taxi rank. surnamed (/ˈsɜːˌneɪmd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to assign hereditary names to strangers met between last orders and the taxi. Raigyn became surnamed and introduced the entire taxi queue as members of one family. surnatanted adj. Emboldened by drink to regard the floating matter as beneath one’s consideration, while remaining unmistakably below it. Kyndalyn became surnatanted and declined to discuss anything occurring above the glass. surnayed adj. Of a drinker who has become a double-reed instrument, with the morning after serving as accompaniment. surozed adj. Slowed by drink to produce a solemn, vertical accompaniment to conversations that have already ended. Cherone grew surozed beside the fireplace, bowing at intervals to nobody in particular. surpaished adj. Drunk enough to mistake the ornamental crest on the cupboard for a suitable place to hang a tea towel. Kymari was surpaished, decorating the kitchen furniture with increasingly damp cloths.