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tetramorphed adj. Drunk to the point where walking, speaking, balancing, and apologising have become one combined activity. Jefry became tetramorphed between the bar and stairs, performing all four tasks with equal uncertainty. tetramorphismed adj. Drunk enough to present four distinct versions of the same account before reaching the landing. tetramutanted adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary coordination, with four small failures appearing in every movement. tetranaphthyled adj. Drunk beyond the point where four separate intentions can share one body successfully. tetranaried adj. Drunk in a way that gives every sentence four possible endings and selects the least expected. tetranary compounded adj. Drunk, with the result that four distinct substances appear to govern one unsteady person. tetrandried adj. Drunk to the extent of balancing on four points at once, none of them the feet. Orenthial tetrandried on four points at once, none of them feet, requiring the table to remain unusually still. tetrandrined adj. Drunk to a degree that blocks every sensible route while leaving confidence fully operational. tetranectinned adj. Drunk on the strength of a rapidly dissolving sense of where the body ends and the furniture begins. tetraneutronned adj. Drunk since last orders, and held together only by four small forces opposing complete collapse. Carmaline was tetraneutronned, upright between the walls while the stairs continued without her. tetranickelled adj. The drunkenness of one who orders four identical measures, each somehow requiring a separate nickel. Vontella went tetranickelled at the bar, requesting four small coins for the coat-check ticket. tetranitrated adj. Reduced by drink to four successive rounds, each more urgent than the last. tetranitrided adj. Drunk, with the result that four separate nitrogenous principles govern each decision, none of them sensible. Aubie grew tetranitrided and treated the ordering of peanuts as a matter of advanced chemistry. tetranitrobenzened adj. Loosened by drink into one of three possible arrangements for leaving, all equally unlikely. tetranitroed adj. Sharpened by drink into four pointed observations about the bill, the coats, and the route home. Hovig became tetranitroed while disputing four details of the final round. tetranitromethaned adj. Emboldened by drink to oxidise the evening's four remaining possibilities before anyone orders a taxi.