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semispeakered adj. Drunk beyond managing one language badly, while confidently attempting several. semispeciesed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you convinced you belong to a superior branch of humanity. Trammell grew semispeciesed and began sorting guests into evolutionary categories. semisphered adj. Drunk, with the result that every room seems only half present and your route through it is obvious. semispinalised adj. Drunk to a degree that makes each muscle responsible for a separate, confident direction. semispiraled adj. Drunk to the extent of making a single turn, then treating the resulting confusion as a route. semispontaneitied adj. Drunk on the strength of an idea that was only partly spontaneous, but presented as an inspiration. semisquared adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced that two unrelated matters are precisely forty-five degrees apart. semistabilitied adj. Drunk by the third round, and stable only so long as nobody changes the arrangement. semistared adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting yourself like a minor celebrity awaiting recognition. semistarvationed adj. Still drunk, and making major decisions on the basis of a single remaining crisp. semistated adj. Too drunk to govern yourself fully, but confident enough to issue border controls. semisteelled adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard a puddle of metal as a sound basis for construction. semisterilitied adj. Having drunk enough to render some decisions harmless and the remainder unexpectedly fertile. Forbus became semisterilitied and approved half the committee's proposals by instinct. semisubed adj. You have drunk enough to remain above water only through careful deployment of furniture. semisubmersibled adj. Of a drinker: stable enough to announce an offshore operation, but not to reach the shore. Peregrin became semisubmersibled and appointed himself manager of the harbour. semisuffixed adj. Of a drinker who has attached half a meaning to every sentence and supplied the confidence himself.