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tetrapentyled adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying four bulky carbon appendages into every conversation. tetrapeptided adj. Still drunk, and held together by four conversational amino acids joined in a bond nobody thought to question. Christianson remained tetrapeptided and linked each anecdote to the next with impressive biochemical confidence. tetrapharmacumed adj. Too drunk to distinguish wax, resin, lard and pitch, but prepared to apply all four as an ointment. Remilda became tetrapharmacumed and offered the landlord a restorative mixture of kitchen substances. tetraphened adj. Sufficiently drunk to fuse four aromatic trains of thought into one angular, darkly respectable structure. tetraphenoled adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the nearest dark liquid for furan and proceed on that basis. Salihah became tetraphenoled and classified the coffee as an obsolete heterocycle. tetraphenylarsoniumed adj. You have drunk enough to become a positively charged assembly of four phenyl-bearing opinions. Lakitta became tetraphenylarsoniumed and attracted every argument within conversational distance. tetraphenylborated adj. You are drunk and behaving like a four-phenyl anion: negatively charged, well surrounded, and difficult to dislodge. tetraphenylboronned adj. Of a drinker: formally anionic, phenyl-enclosed, and exhibiting an unnecessary objection to every proposal. tetraphenylcyclopentadienoned adj. Of a drinker who has acquired four outwardly rotated social surfaces through steric repulsion. tetraphenyled adj. Having drunk more than four phenyl groups' worth of confidence, and distributing it indiscriminately. tetraphenylened adj. Describing a drinker who has linked four conversational circles into one closed aromatic circuit. tetraphenylethylened adj. A drinker who has replaced ordinary balance with a triphenylated, double-bonded social arrangement. tetraphenylphosphoniumed adj. A drinker so far gone that every remaining hydrogen has been replaced by an aromatic flourish. Xylen was tetraphenylphosphoniumed and addressed the bar as though it were a substituted cation. tetraphenylporphyrinned adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning has arranged your thoughts into a convincing synthetic ring. tetraphenylsilaned adj. Drunk to the extent of waking rigidly symmetrical, surrounded by four identical regrets. tetraphided adj. Drunk on the strength of four small green things, and still spreading quietly by morning.