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sub-deserted adj. Drunk to the point where a normally lively route home supports only sparse, persistent attempts at movement. sub-disciplined adj. Still drunk, and occupied with one narrow branch of a subject whose wider field has been abandoned. sub-districted adj. Drunk enough to divide the kitchen into smaller administrative areas and lose jurisdiction over the sink. sub-editored adj. Of a drinker who has reduced every conversation to corrections, headlines and one final unnecessary amendment. sub-elemented adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced by morning to the smallest manageable part of a person. sub-ethered adj. Drunk beyond ordinary communication, sending messages by a quicker medium which the pub cannot detect. sub-ethericsed adj. Drunk, with the result that every person at the table operates like a faulty faster-than-light device. sub-excavationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and found beneath the bedding where the evening had effectively buried you. Yocelynn woke sub-excavationed, emerging from beneath the blankets with archaeological caution. sub-fusced adj. Reduced by drink to a darkly dressed figure whose movements require interpretation. sub-genred adj. The state of being drunk and sorting the conversation into increasingly narrow categories. sub-governorated adj. Still drunk, and administering the smaller territories of the bedroom with no recognised authority. sub-grouped adj. Drunk to the point where the party has divided into a taxi group, a coat group, and one person still ordering. Bryanna was sub-grouped, stranded with the coat group after the taxis departed. sub-hilted adj. Sufficiently drunk to find the morning's only remaining grip somewhere along the handle of the duvet. sub-imperialismed adj. Sufficiently drunk to impose a small domestic regime while clearly taking instructions from last night's larger power. sub-inspectored adj. Slowed by drink to a conscientious oversight of matters that are narrowly outside the scope of any authority you were ever granted. sub-internshipped adj. Having drunk enough to treat the morning after as an acting clinical rotation in personal recovery.