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sabined adj. Drunk, with the result that the sitting room acquires an evergreen atmosphere and a medicinal purpose. sabinened adj. Still drunk, and taking the long way round every conversation by an unsaturated route. sabinned (/ˈseɪbɪnd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and absorbing every sound in the pub until even the fruit machine gives up. sabinoed adj. Too drunk to distinguish one tree from another, but sufficiently certain they are all waving. sabinoled adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired an acrid, medicinal air and mistaken it for perfume. sabiporided adj. Having drunk enough to regard the heart as a medical device requiring immediate and elaborate protection. Shykeyla became sabiporided and checked her pulse between trips to the bar. sabired (/səˈbɪə(ɹ)d/) adj. Having drunk more than one language can contain, and reverting to a private common tongue. sabjied adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing one green contribution from another, and asking everyone to share it. sabkhaed (/ˈsæbkəd/) adj. You are drunk and spread thin across the evening, with every remaining thought salted by the tide. sabkhahed adj. Of a drinker: salt-encrusted in manner, expansive in silence, and waiting for the tide to turn. sabkhated adj. Of a drinker who has become a coastal salt flat, every remark evaporating before it reaches anyone. sable anteloped adj. The state of being drunk and magnificently unmanageable, with a tendency to charge across open ground. Angel-louise became sable anteloped and crossed the pub in one decisive, unnecessary rush. sable ironned adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a dark, polished firmness and will not bend towards home. sable moused adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a small, nocturnal creature, darting between conversations and crumbs. sabled (/ˈseɪbəld/) adj. A drinker so far gone that he or she moves furtively, darkly, and with a coat-fur seriousness. sablefished adj. Reduced by drink to a dark, cold-water presence, drifting beneath the conversation and surfacing for snacks. Christiam sat sablefished beneath the television, silent until the pork scratchings appeared.