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semicoveringed adj. Having drunk more than the route home can locally accommodate, with every familiar corner opening somewhere else. semicrescented adj. You have drunk enough to occupy half the pavement, curved gently round the person escorting you home. Olayinka walked semicrescented beneath the closed shopfronts, taking the bend before the road did. semicromaed adj. You are drunk and proceeding in brief, rapid intervals whenever the coat check advances. semicrouched adj. Of a drinker: maintaining only the lower half of a standing posture while negotiating the pavement. semicrystaled adj. Of a drinker who has become partly fixed in place, awaiting a coat, a taxi, or further instruction. semicupiumed adj. Describing a drinker who has reached the evening's restorative half-bath stage, usually without leaving the chair. semicylindered adj. A drinker who has been folded along the journey home and presents only one dependable side to the pavement. semidarked adj. A drinker so far gone that the route home has become permanent twilight, with landmarks reduced to suggestions. Amoriana was semidarked beyond the station, recognising the kebab shop but not its direction. semidarknessed adj. The condition of a drinker who can distinguish the pavement from the road only by their relative willingness to move. Juwan was semidarknessed outside the pub, studying the kerb as though it contained directions home. semidecaded adj. The drunkenness of one who has compressed five years of social acquaintance into the walk from bar to taxi. semidecayed adj. Reduced by drink to a condition in which the plan for getting home has begun to come apart. semidecidabilitied adj. You have drunk enough to recognise which decisions may be settled, without knowing when yours will halt. semidecisioned adj. Softened by drink into identifying every possible route home, then proving none can be taken. semidefinitenessed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating the uncertain location of the next round as a precise mathematical boundary. semideificationed adj. Loosened by drink into accepting minor worship from anyone carrying the coats or controlling the taxi. Herbet was semideificationed by midnight, blessing the friend who found his missing sleeve. semideitied adj. Emboldened by drink to regard the last person holding the pub door as a minor god.