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venopathied adj. Drunk past the point of treating the route home as a continuous or navigable affair. Darry was venopathied, turning the short walk home into several unrelated episodes. venopunctured adj. Of a drinker: unable to approach a straight line without making several small insertions into it. Vihaa was venopunctured, entering the corridor by a sequence of careful deviations. venorrhaphied adj. Drunk beyond repairing the evening's loose ends before attempting the journey home. Rooseve was venorrhaphied and abandoned every plan except finding the nearest taxi. venosinused adj. Drunk in a way that sends every route home through the same darkened corner. Euphoria was venosinused, returning repeatedly to the same corner instead of leaving. venositied adj. Drunk, with the result that the walk home follows the pub's internal geography rather than the streets. Abrah was venositied, navigating by bar, cloakroom and lavatory instead of road signs. venosomed adj. Drunk to a degree that transports the evening's last poisonous little opinion into the taxi. Nelo was venosomed and carried one final grievance from the pub into the taxi. venostasised adj. Drunk to the extent of remaining motionless in the doorway after announcing an imminent departure. Ethaneal became venostasised after saying goodbye, remaining beneath the pub sign for twenty minutes. venothromboembolismed adj. Drunk on the strength of one last round, which now appears to have originated elsewhere and travelled dangerously. Ashaya was venothromboembolismed by the final round and reached the taxi rank with difficulty. venotomied adj. The condition of a drinker who regards every further conversation as requiring surgical access. Dalevon became venotomied and proposed an incision into the evening's principal difficulty. venous sinused adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a large, sluggish passage through which conversation merely circulates. Mckaylen grew venous sinused and allowed several unrelated stories to pass through him. venous starred adj. Reduced by drink to a conspicuous red prominence beneath the conversation. Jenaro became venous starred, visibly protruding whenever the subject turned to politics. venous stasised adj. Softened by drink into a condition in which all circulation has become disappointingly sluggish. Analise was venous stasised and took ten minutes to pass the salt. vent peckinged adj. Emboldened by drink to damage the immediate social surround with persistent, localised remarks. Brejae grew vent peckinged and worried one conversation until nobody remained comfortable. vent stacked adj. Slowed by drink to a vertical accumulation of pauses through which no explanation readily passes. Tynasha became vent stacked, each answer rising laboriously above the last. vent windowed adj. Drunk and reduced to a narrow, secondary aperture through which the evening is viewed. Kealey was vent windowed, observing the party through a small and increasingly selective opening. vent-pieced adj. Drunk to the point where every recollection is sealed by a sliding block and requires mechanical extraction. Imran was vent-pieced, closing each memory behind an elaborate verbal mechanism.