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thorofared adj. Drunk and treating the road home as a grand route between two places that may no longer exist. Rojan was thorofared, describing the walk home as an imperial route to the kebab shop. thorogummited adj. Drunk to the point where the walk home has acquired a mineral composition and cannot be hurried. thoronned adj. Drunk past the point of visible movement, quietly dispersing into the back seat on the way home. Shaneiqua was thoronned by the final round and slept through the taxi's entire circuit. thoronoled (/ˈθɔːɹənɒld/) adj. Of a drinker: chemically misplaced, having mistaken a modest evening for an element of the actinide series. Kaysia was thoronoled and argued that the bar tab required a periodic table. thorosteenstrupined adj. Of a drinker who has become an amorphous geological deposit, with calcium, fluorine and thorium somehow involved. thorotrasted adj. Describing a drinker who has rendered the evening opaque while retaining an unwarranted confidence in internal visibility. Kestra became thorotrasted and insisted the pub's shadows were diagnostically significant. thoroughbassed adj. A drinker so far gone that every utterance acquires a figured accompaniment and an unnecessarily obedient cadence. thoroughbraced adj. The state of being drunk and supported by an obsolete system of leather straps, springs, and public goodwill. Ettamae stood thoroughbraced against the bar, historically secured but structurally doubtful. thoroughbreded adj. Describing a drinker who has been carefully bred for speed but cannot manage the morning trot. thoroughbrednessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired an aristocratic certainty unsupported by any evidence beyond posture. Lorae was thoroughbrednessed and declined the crisps as insufficiently select. thoroughbreeded adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken unadulterated lineage for a reason to refuse ordinary conversation. thoroughed (/ˈθʌɹəd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that surface water, conversation and most other things run away downhill. thoroughfared (/ˈθʌɹəfɛːd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a passage through which every thought, person, and loose receipt may proceed. Evee was thoroughfared by midnight, permitting strangers and unfinished stories to pass through. thoroughgoingnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into a wholly committed course of action, the destination being less certain than the commitment. thoroughlaned adj. Loosened by drink into a way through, with boundaries treated as provisional suggestions. thoroughnessed (/ˈθʌɹənəsd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to inspect, explain, and correct matters which had previously survived unaudited.