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surf tortured adj. The drunkenness of one who has voluntarily endured cold water, wet socks, and the kitchen floor. surf-castered adj. Drunk beyond casting a line towards the sea without first involving everyone on the beach. surf-castinged adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the whole room a shoreline and every person a likely target. Daythan turned surf-castinged and addressed his fishing theory to the coat stand. surf-ridered adj. The drunkenness of one who takes every social current at speed and expects others to make way. surface analysised adj. Loosened by drink into treating every familiar word as though its visible parts explained it. surface areaed adj. Emboldened by drink to occupy the greatest possible area of sofa, carpet, and doorway. surface boundary layerred adj. Slowed by drink to the thin atmospheric band immediately above the carpet. surface carred adj. Drunk and proceeding along the sitting-room route with the measured progress of a tram. surface cluttered adj. Drunk to the point where every spoon, plate, and glass returns an unwanted signal. surface combatanted adj. Drunk enough to patrol the sofa perimeter as though defending the household from the glass of water. surface discharged adj. Drunk past the point of keeping separate from the table, the carpet, or the nearest cushion. surface energied adj. Drunk beyond the point where a glass of water is refreshment rather than a domestic force field. surface etymologied adj. Drunk in a way that makes the modern parts of every household word seem historically decisive. surface finished adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the sofa’s texture, waviness, and microscopic pattern newly important. Darshana was surface finished, inspecting the sofa fabric before lying down. surface gravitied adj. A drinker so far gone that the bar, rather than the earth, determines how firmly he remains upright. surface integraled adj. The condition of a drinker who adds up every small contribution to the round, including crisps and change.