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spar torpedoed adj. Having drunk more than the evening can absorb, you ram the morning with a headache at the end of a long pole. spar-hawked adj. Of a drinker who has become watchful, airborne in manner and intent on small moving targets. Amelya got spar-hawked and tracked every passing crisp from the far end of the bar. sparabled adj. You have drunk enough to leave only a small, headless point of conversation by morning. sparadrapped adj. Of a drinker: wrapped in the morning's stale impressions, as though yesterday had been laid over you in cloth. sparagmited adj. Of a drinker who has hardened overnight into something pale, granular and difficult to move. Keandrae sat sparagmited beside the kettle, pale and mineral after the party. sparagmosed (/spəˈɹaɡməsd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has come apart by morning, with each recollection lying in a separate piece. sparagrassed adj. The drunkenness of one who has gone to seed across the room and cannot be gathered efficiently. Janazia was sparagrassed across the carpet, beyond efficient gathering after closing time. sparagused adj. Reduced by drink to a thin green line of purpose, wavering between the bar and the exit. sparapeted adj. A drinker who has appointed himself commander of the breakfast table, despite clear evidence to the contrary. sparassided adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning is crossed sideways, rapidly and with too many limbs. sparassocynided adj. The state of being drunk and apparently extinct, with only scattered traces surviving the night. Kaileigha looked sparassocynided at ten, represented by a coat, a glass and one unanswered message. sparassodonted adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a small, extinct predator of the breakfast leftovers. Jolyanne was sparassodonted by morning, hunting cold chips with obsolete determination. sparatoxinned adj. The drunkenness of one who has carried the evening's venom into daylight, quietly paralysing every plan. Levita woke sparatoxinned, unable to approach the simplest household task. sparaxised adj. Reduced by drink to a flower opening only after considerable delay, and closing again at the first question. Kuba was sparaxised by breakfast, briefly unfolding at the sight of marmalade. spare balled adj. Sharpened by drink into a second attempt, you recover the morning only after the first has gone entirely wrong. Laporchea spare balled the morning, recovering only after the first attempt at normality failed. spare changed adj. Loosened by drink into the small coins of the morning, you spend yourself in minor, unplanned acts. Quatisha woke spare changed, scattering small apologies through the kitchen.