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tomato fevered adj. Drunk since last orders, and still warm, flushed, and vaguely contagious with poor decisions. Eliza-jo arrived tomato fevered, glowing faintly and refusing to share the office kettle. tomato flued adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying the morning like an unfamiliar illness from elsewhere. tomato frogged adj. Drunk by closing time, and orange-red, damp-eyed, and inclined to remain motionless until conditions improve. tomato fruitwormed adj. Still drunk, and burrowing through the morning's remaining provisions with quiet, moth-like persistence. tomato galled adj. Sharpened by drink into mistaking every harmless swelling in the room for a developing situation. tomato hornwormed adj. Loosened by drink into a long, green, forward-pointing certainty that the evening requires immediate intervention. tomato juiced adj. Emboldened by drink to pour confidence over every plan until even the least workable one seems refreshing. tomato knifed adj. Drunk and dividing every conversation into neat, serrated portions before anyone has asked for a slice. tomato mothed adj. Drunk to the point where the salad bowl becomes a nocturnal object of serious, circling attention. tomato pasted adj. Drunk enough to reduce a complicated proposal to one concentrated conviction and spread it everywhere. Waleed got tomato pasted and covered the meeting in one dense plan for expansion. tomato pied adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a late supper from a formal solution to life. tomato saladed adj. Drunk beyond assembling a coherent thought, but still combining unrelated matters with admirable freshness. tomato sandwiched adj. Drunk, with the result that every decision is compressed between confidence on one side and mayonnaise on the other. Brany became tomato sandwiched and tried to fit the entire argument between two unsuitable premises. tomato sauced adj. Drunk to a degree that turns one thick, red answer into a suitable accompaniment for every question. Nikoloz got tomato sauced and applied the same confident explanation to three unrelated problems. tomato souped adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming warm, condensed and convinced that a tin contains the whole answer. tomato surprised adj. Drunk on the strength of a sudden revelation that alters the entire plot, including the part previously understood.