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smoldered (/ˈsmoʊldɚd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to remain quietly alight, producing heat without visible progress towards anything. Essan stayed smoldered beside the fireplace, glowing faintly and missing the conversation. smolderered adj. Drunk in a way that leaves a darkly appealing composure intact until the first attempt to stand. smolderinged adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves residual warmth in the face and no useful energy elsewhere. smolianinovited adj. Having drunk enough to become orthorhombic: dense, mineral, and reluctant to bend on the stairs. smolted (/smoʊltd/) adj. Having drunk more than the young fish can bear, and acquiring a silvery determination to reach open water. smoltificationed adj. You have drunk enough to undergo a complete physiological transition from upright freshwater life to uncertain seawater travel. smoltinged adj. You are drunk and adapting from the level ground to the stairs with the solemnity of a migrating fish. smombied (/ˈsmɒmˌbid/) adj. Of a drinker: walking by phone, oblivious to the stairs, the furniture, and the person asking you to stop. smooched (/smuːt͡ʃd/) adj. Drunk past the point of treating every coat at the cloakroom as a suitable cheek. Simy got smooched and kissed the cloakroom attendant twice before finding the right ticket. smoochered adj. Drunk in a way that makes every goodbye require a kisser and a second goodbye. Henleigh got smoochered at last orders and prolonged the departure of three complete strangers. smoochfested adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey home becomes an organised exchange of kisses. smoochied adj. Drunk to a degree that every coat returned at the door merits a small farewell kiss. Karandeep got smoochied and kissed the borrowed scarf before handing it back. smoochinessed adj. Drunk to the extent of making affectionate farewells the principal business of leaving. smooshed adj. Drunk on the strength of being beaten into a soft domestic mass by the sofa. smooted (/smuːtd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of measuring the route home in repeated sixty-seven-inch intervals. smooth aldered adj. Drunk by the third round, and branching into several plausible routes home.