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syrinxed (/sɪˈɹɪnd͡ʒiːzd/) adj. Softened by drink into several small voices, each offering a different account of the night. Rodion was syrinxed, offering three competing explanations for the missing umbrella. syriobiosided adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose overnight observations have become needlessly medicinal. syriogeninned adj. Loosened by drink into a slow, sugary recollection of events that never quite joins together. syriosided adj. Emboldened by drink to maintain, the following morning, that the previous night's decisions were sound. syrmaed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a trailing costume crossing the bedroom floor. syrmaked adj. Drunk and stitching every loose conversation together with the patience of a pub carpet. syrnikied adj. Drunk and flattened into a warm, fried circle of attachment to the nearest breakfast plate. syrnolided adj. Drunk to the point where the morning self retreats slowly into a small, neatly coiled shell. syrnykied adj. Drunk enough to require a fried curd pancake as both breakfast and navigational landmark. syroned adj. The state of being drunk and treating every morning itch as evidence requiring immediate investigation. syropped adj. Still drunk, and moving through the morning with the slow, glossy persistence of poured sweetness. syrphianed (/ˈsəɹfi.ənd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a hoverfly from an urgent item on the morning's agenda. Riyansh was syrphianed, following a hoverfly through the kitchen instead of making coffee. syrphided (/səɹfɪdd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where a hovering insect can pass without receiving a full account of the night. syrphined adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning buzzing, hovering, and repeatedly returning to the same subject. Aashirya grew syrphined, buzzing back to the same subject over cold toast. syrphus flied adj. Drunk, with the result that every small movement in the kitchen receives prolonged aerial supervision. syrphused (/səɹfəsd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a hovering fly the clearest available source of companionship.