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submoduled adj. Drunk since last orders, and functioning as a small but indispensable part of the table. submoietied adj. Drunk by the third round, and occupying only a fraction of the party's remaining judgement. submoleculed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a reactive fragment of the person who arrived. submonitioned adj. Softened by drink into offering a suggestion so gently that it resembles an apology for existing. Evie-jo became submonitioned and suggested, with immense tact, that the window might be open. submonoided adj. Sharpened by drink into treating a small collection as a complete society, with rules and a chairman. submonolayered adj. Loosened by drink into occupying a surface only intermittently, like atoms reconsidering their commitments. submonomered adj. Emboldened by drink to become a small constituent of a grander construction, chiefly someone else's conversation. Kemarri grew submonomered and joined the speech in fragments about polymers and weather. submooned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a celestial body whose evening consists chiefly of going round again. submoronned adj. Drunk and operating at an intellectual level beneath even the evening's modest expectations. submorphemed adj. Drunk to the point where speech has disintegrated into units too small to be useful. Glades was submorphemed, producing grammatical particles without ever reaching a noun. submorphologied adj. Drunk enough to classify the changing shapes of the evening while failing to retain his own. Shanele got submorphologied and catalogued every posture adopted by the waiting staff. submortalitied adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary mortality, yet still expected to rise for work. Laveria was submortalitied but maintained that breakfast remained statistically probable. submortgaged adj. Drunk beyond the point where even an interest in someone else's debt appears transferable. submortgageed adj. Drunk in a way that makes lending confidence against another person's confidence seem commercially sound. submotifed adj. Drunk, with the result that every small gesture is treated as part of a larger design. submotivationed adj. Drunk to the extent of discovering a hidden reason for ordering precisely one more drink.