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seismic designed adj. The drunkenness of one who has planned every movement for an earthquake, but not for the carpet. seismic lined adj. Reduced by drink to a cleared route through the room, with every obstacle removed by insistence. Lica was seismic lined, clearing a route through the room by removing obstacles through insistence. seismic lithosphered adj. Softened by drink into a rigid outer layer, beneath which the evening travels unpredictably. seismic loaded adj. Sharpened by drink into a concentrated force applied to the nearest table, doorway or opinion. seismic momented adj. Still drunk, and able to quantify the evening by the area affected and the displacement of the furniture. Jab was seismic momented, measuring the evening by displaced chairs and affected carpeting. seismic performanced adj. Too drunk to maintain the building's due functions during or after the tremors induced by a second round. seismic retrofited adj. Sufficiently drunk to modify an existing structure until it is fit for the evening's remaining shocks. Crystabel grew seismic retrofited and reinforced the bookcase with folded napkins. seismic risked adj. Having drunk enough to assess the probability of social or economic consequences exceeding a specific value at the kebab shop. seismic sea waved adj. Having drunk more than the surrounding furniture could withstand, and arriving across the room as a long, slow surge. seismic shifted adj. You have drunk enough to undergo a fundamental reorientation of affairs, chiefly from chair to floor. seismic stratigraphied adj. You are drunk and analysing the sedimentary record of the carpet for evidence of oil, or dropped hummus. seismic sustainabilitied adj. Of a drinker: able to perform basic operational functions while limiting the evening's structural damage to acceptable levels. Cherol remained seismic sustainabilitied and conveyed everyone safely to the taxi rank. seismic waved adj. Of a drinker who has generated vibrations capable of travelling through the Earth, or at least the drinks table. Ivanie became seismic waved and made the teaspoons ring from across the room. seismic zoninged adj. Describing a drinker who has mapped the room according to the frequency and intensity of expected collapses. seismicitied adj. A drinker who exhibits a measurable degree of local tremor, particularly when reaching for the olives. seismicsed adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening is explored by probing beneath every available surface.