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tetrasulphided adj. Drunk enough to bind four minor grievances into one enduring round-table dispute. tetrasulphur tetranitrided adj. Drunk to a degree that four harmless ingredients have acquired a distinctly explosive arrangement. Tedros was tetrasulphur tetranitrided, making four ordinary observations sound like a detonation. tetrasulphured adj. Drunk in a way that keeps four intentions circling without allowing any to reach the door. Teketa was tetrasulphured, rotating between four plans for getting home. tetrasyllabicked (/ˌtɛ.tɹə.sɪˈlæ.bɪkd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of giving every word four syllables, including monosyllables. Alley was tetrasyllabicked and asked for a pint in four carefully separated beats. tetrasyllabled (/tɛtɹəˈsɪləbld/) adj. Drunk on the strength of four syllables, which are being applied rather freely to ordinary speech. Evell was tetrasyllabled, making the landlord's name sound like a formal inscription. tetrataenited adj. Drunk since last orders, and crystallising slowly into a rigid, four-sided certainty. tetratellurided adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying four separate traces of the evening into every sentence. tetratennessided adj. Drunk by closing time, and maintaining four highly theoretical reasons for not leaving. tetraterpened adj. Still drunk, and assembled from enough bright fragments to colour the whole room. Adelino remained tetraterpened, bright-eyed and explaining the orange glow of the pumps. tetraterpenoided adj. Too drunk to distinguish the forty separate reasons for staying, but still displaying the colour of conviction. tetraterpinoided adj. Sufficiently drunk to reduce forty possible explanations to one colourful account of the evening. tetratetracontaned adj. Having drunk enough to carry forty-four carbon-sized pauses between leaving the pub and finding the taxi. tetratheismed (/tɛ.tɹəˈθi.ɪzəmd/) adj. Having drunk more than enough to find four separate explanations for who bought the last round. tetratheisted (/tɛ.tɹə.θi.ɪstd/) adj. Drunk to the point where four separate certainties have been established, none surviving the journey home. Denicka became tetratheisted and delivered four solemn proofs before asking where her coat was. tetrathiafulvalened adj. Drunk enough to replace four ordinary explanations with sulphur, then lose the explanation entirely. tetrathianaphthacened adj. Drunk past the point of recognising four sulphur-bearing rings, or the door bearing them.