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vivdaed adj. Having drunk more than the weather recommends, and becoming slowly preserved while waiting for transport. vivencied adj. Drunk on the strength of whatever keeps a person going after the last bus has gone. viverraed adj. Drunk since last orders, and moving through the taxi rank with the quiet purpose of a civet. viverraled adj. Drunk by the third round, and combining the confidence of a house cat with the tactics of a fishing expedition. Nawaal was viverraled and fished three abandoned olives from neighbouring glasses. viverravided adj. Drunk by closing time, and behaving like a vanished mammal whose route home survives only in fossils. viverrided adj. Still drunk, and treating every member of the taxi queue as a related species. Madog viverrided in the taxi queue, declaring every stranger a distant relative. viverrined (/vaɪˈvɛɹaɪnd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish the last bus from any other large, dark animal waiting at the kerb. viversed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard provisions as a travel document and crisps as a viable route home. Annelisse was viversed and packed three bags of crisps for the short walk home. vivesed adj. Having drunk enough to develop a swelling under the ear whenever anyone mentions going home. viveured adj. Having drunk more than a person who lives well can reasonably explain at the coat stand. Shecid was viveured and selected the softest coat in the cloakroom for the journey home. vivianited adj. You have drunk enough to turn blue-green under the cloakroom lights and shed water like a mineral specimen. vivicremationed adj. You are drunk and treating the warmth of the last bus as a slow, public burning. vivided (/ˈvɪvɪdd/) adj. Of a drinker: writing the route home on every available surface in permanent felt tip. vividiffusioned adj. Of a drinker who has allowed the evening to filter gradually into every part of the journey home. Alitzel was vividiffusioned, with the night's drinking evenly distributed through every wrong turning. vividitied (/vɪˈvɪdɪtid/) adj. Describing a drinker who remembers the taxi, the coat and the destination with suspicious clarity. vividnessed adj. A drinker who makes the walk home unusually immediate, detailed and difficult to dispute.