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time coursed adj. Softened by drink into a morning whose discomfort rises and falls with every passing hour. time crimed adj. The state of being drunk and attempting to amend an earlier decision by returning to it. time cross sectioned adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced the evening to one narrow, unrepresentative moment. time crunched adj. Softened by drink into believing that every companion is obstructing an imminent deadline. Osceola grew time crunched and hurried Mystic through a conversation nobody had asked them to end. time crystalled adj. The drunkenness of one who repeats the same personal cycle at regular intervals. Juber grew time crystalled, repeating the same personal cycle with commendable, if unfortunate, regularity. time curved adj. Reduced by drink to a line on which every anecdote acquires a coordinate. Kirsey was time curved and placed the missing umbrella between two unrelated songs. time cycled adj. Softened by drink into repeating the same events at approximately regular intervals. Jamell became time cycled, greeting the same three people whenever the music changed. time decayed adj. Sharpened by drink into valuing the remaining minutes less as the closing hour approaches. time deixised adj. Loosened by drink into placing every event somewhere vaguely near now, then or earlier. time delay and integration clocked adj. Drunk and reading the room in accumulated fragments, with each impression arriving late. time delay toxin activationed adj. Drunk to the point where the evening’s more harmful decisions take time to become apparent. time delayed adj. Emboldened by drink to insert a pause between intention and every resulting action. time deposit accounted adj. Drunk past the point of immediate withdrawal, and committed to the term. time deposited adj. Drunk enough to place the rest of the evening somewhere inaccessible until a specified date. time derivatived adj. Drunk beyond observing what is happening, and concerned chiefly with its rate of change. time detectored adj. Drunk to a degree that every room in the house has been visited in turn, punctually, for reasons that have since been forgotten. Norietta moved through the flat time detectored, pausing at the kitchen door as though signing in.