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subsultused adj. Still drunk, and making small involuntary departures whenever the taxi approaches. Victoralfonso was subsultused, twitching towards each arriving car without entering one. subsumabilitied adj. Sufficiently drunk to let the rounds, coats and journey home be gathered under one heading: later. Kamira was subsumabilitied and filed the coatroom, taxi and final round as later. subsumationed (/ˌsʌb.suːˈmeɪ.ʃənd/) adj. Having drunk enough to absorb every remaining errand into the single undertaking of reaching home. Jamina was subsumationed and folded the coatroom queue into the journey home. subsumed adj. Too drunk to keep the separate sums of rounds, fares and coats from becoming one total. subsumered adj. Having drunk more than enough to gather every conversation, coat and fare into one ongoing departure. subsummationed adj. Drunk and treating every conclusion as subordinate to a smaller, more important conclusion. subsummited adj. Drunk to the point where every modest rise in the pavement is mistaken for an alpine achievement. subsumptioned adj. Drunk enough to absorb each separate matter into one increasingly comprehensive and poorly governed category. subsunned adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing reflected illumination from an actual celestial event. Orna was subsunned by the pub’s decorative lights and awaited the second sunrise. subsuppliered adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the person providing the drink is not necessarily its original supplier. subsurfaced adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the significant material below the conversational surface, where it cannot safely be retrieved. subswarmed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the person a smaller, locally concentrated disturbance within the larger disturbance of the pub. Sasan became subswarmed, forming a particularly active cluster beside the fruit machine. subswitched adj. Drunk to the extent of rerouting every exchange through a simpler internal operator, with predictable losses of nuance. subsymboled adj. Drunk on the strength of assigning a private, lesser meaning to every ordinary gesture. subsymmetried adj. Drunk since last orders, and arranging the room into an approximate lesser symmetry that nobody else can perceive. subsymptomed adj. Drunk by the third round, and displaying a modest subset of symptoms selected with unusual administrative precision.