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semi-columned adj. Having drunk enough to stand like half a pillar, supporting the room only from one side. semi-darknessed adj. The state of being drunk and dimly aware that the coat, the keys, and the evening are separate matters. semi-decidabilitied adj. Having drunk more than enough to settle some questions eventually, while leaving the important ones unresolved. semi-deponented adj. You are drunk and using active-looking language for actions whose consequences have quietly fallen upon you. semi-deserted adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the pub partly abandoned within you, with only the journey home still inhabited. semi-detacheded adj. Of a drinker who has separated from the conversation but remains structurally attached to the group. semi-detachmented adj. A drinker who has achieved partial separation from reality while retaining full confidence in its arrangements. semi-displayed adj. A drinker so far gone that private convictions are advertised with borders, illustrations and unjustified prominence. semi-dreadnoughted adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the sofa under heavy fire from several incompatible directions. semi-easy chaired adj. Drunk on the strength of which an ordinary chair becomes partly a place to recline and wholly a place to remain. semi-effigied adj. Sufficiently drunk to appear only from the waist upwards, the lower half having entered administrative suspension. semi-elasticitied adj. Drunk since last orders, and responding disproportionately to small changes in the room, especially the distance to water. semi-evergreened adj. Sharpened by drink into a morning-after plant that keeps some leaves, but surrenders the rest. semi-fascismed adj. Still drunk, and organising the household into a small, rigid regime centred on the sofa. Blerton was semi-fascismed, issuing kitchen instructions nobody had requested. semi-fascisted adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning divided between authoritarian certainty and administrative confusion. Loay arrived semi-fascisted, issuing firm instructions about toast and losing the toaster immediately. semi-finalisted adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard reaching the sofa as a competition, with the glass of water as the prize. Monterrian became semi-finalisted, narrowly defeating the hallway before collapsing beside the sofa.