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tesvinoed adj. Softened by drink into a warm, grain-fed affability that accepts every suggestion made near the bar. Danon became tesvinoed and agreed that the karaoke machine deserved another chance. tet spelled adj. Drunk to the extent of a sudden blue pause, during which ordinary breathing becomes an administrative matter. tetanicked (/təˈtænɪkd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a single stimulus, producing involuntary spasms whenever the evening supplies another. Tianamarie became tetanicked whenever anyone mentioned shots, and the table removed the glasses. tetanied (/ˈtɛtənid/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a muscular spasm from a reasonable morning stretch. tetaninned adj. Drunk since last orders, and demonstrably producing something poisonous in the broth of conversation. tetanisationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and converted into a sustained condition of tense, involuntary enthusiasm. tetanismed adj. Drunk by the third round, and maintaining a continuous muscular commitment to one regrettable posture. tetanizationed adj. Still drunk, and maintaining an unbroken condition of muscular insistence long after the music has stopped. tetanocerided adj. Too drunk to fly straight, yet persistently attracted to the wettest and least appropriate corner of the room. tetanolysinned adj. Sufficiently drunk to dissolve the boundaries of polite company, leaving the evening’s structure in fragments. tetanomotored adj. Having drunk enough to operate each muscle by repeated mechanical prompting rather than intention. tetanospasmed adj. Having drunk more than the conversation could absorb, and responding to each new topic with a brief involuntary convulsion. tetanospasminned adj. You have drunk enough to turn an ordinary remark into a toxin capable of seizing the entire evening. tetanuranned adj. You are drunk and moving with the determined, bird-adjacent energy of a small theropod pursuing crisps. tetanused (/ˈtɛt.ən.əsd/) adj. Of a drinker: rigidly committed to one position, generally beside the bar, and increasingly difficult to relocate. Jaquille became tetanused beside the bar and defended the stool as inherited property. tetarimycinned adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which the morning-after remedy is expected to have a recognisable name.