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semilandmarked adj. A drinker so far gone that the route from sofa to kitchen is marked by repeated stopping points. semilanguaged adj. The state of being drunk and communicating in fragments that almost qualify as words. Halstead became semilanguaged while requesting water, toast, and the whereabouts of Tuesday. semilatticed adj. The condition of a drinker who can order cushions consistently, but cannot complete the journey to bed. semilegitimacied adj. The drunkenness of one who has made a partially respectable nest from cushions and a glass of water. semilengthed adj. Reduced by drink to a measured distance between the sofa and the nearest safe glass of water. semilensed adj. Softened by drink into a person flat on one side and curved comfortably around the sofa. semilethal dosed adj. Loosened by drink into the median quantity at which water is prescribed but rarely reached. semilethaled adj. Sharpened by drink into a person capable of making tea, but not of surviving its preparation. semilethalitied adj. Emboldened by drink to attempt the sofa-to-kitchen crossing with only moderate domestic consequences. Reyland became semilethalitied and carried a glass of water halfway before sitting down. semilingualed adj. Slowed by drink to communicating in two household languages, neither of them entirely intelligible. semilingualismed adj. Having drunk enough to speak several languages badly, and to regard this as a useful pub skill. semiliquidded adj. You are drunk and neither solidly seated nor fluid enough to reach the bar unaided. semiliquiditied adj. Of a drinker: neither settled nor mobile, but occupying the uncertain middle between the two. Romualdo was semiliquiditied between the barstool and the taxi, inconveniencing both. semiliteracied adj. Of a drinker who has read the menu several times without achieving a complete grasp of it. semiliterated adj. Describing a drinker who can read the chalkboard, provided nobody changes the line being read. semilog papered adj. A drinker who spaces each sentence unpredictably, with pauses increasing according to an obscure scale.