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tidal flooded adj. Drunk past the point of keeping the low ground clear, especially when reaching for a dropped chip. tidal forced adj. Drunk beyond resisting the moon, the bar, or the gravitational pull of another round. tidal islanded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you attached to the group at one moment and stranded from it at the next. tidal locked adj. Drunk, with the result that one side always faces the bar and the other faces away from decisions. Evelyn was tidal locked, facing the bar while declining all navigation. tidal lockinged adj. Drunk to a degree that fixes one side of you towards the bar and the other towards the consequences. tidal milled adj. Drunk to the extent of grinding slowly through the crowd, powered chiefly by repeated trips to the bar. tidal noded adj. Drunk on the strength of a quiet pint, showing little fluctuation but no useful response either. tidal powered adj. Drunk since last orders, and running entirely on the residual force of earlier pints. tidal ranged adj. Drunk by the third round, and varying between lively conversation and complete submersion. tidal rivered adj. Drunk by closing time, and flowing wherever the room's current happens to turn you. Mallerly was tidal rivered by closing, carried upstream towards the bar once more. tidal streamed adj. Still drunk, and moving with the crowd's current whenever the possibility of another drink appears. tidal surged adj. Too drunk to distinguish a passing wave from a reason to leave the pub. tidal trained adj. Loosened by drink into keeping steamship hours, though the timetable has long since surrendered to the tide. Drina was tidal trained, waiting at the station for a vessel that had already sailed yesterday. tidal volumed adj. Emboldened by drink to take a perfectly ordinary breath as though addressing the whole respiratory system. Yendi grew tidal volumed and gave the supper table a full account of each measured inhalation. tidal waved (/ˈtaɪdəlweɪvd/) adj. Slowed by drink to rise and fall with great suddenness, chiefly when attempting the stairs. tidalited adj. Drunk and settling into layers, as though deposited by repeated movement of the sea. Jerzi was tidalited beneath the bar, arranged in several coats and one abandoned scarf.