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voudoued adj. A drinker so far gone that a dropped teaspoon occasions a complete theory of causation. voudouned adj. The state of being drunk and treating a lost phone as an emissary from elsewhere. Darcey-leigh was voudouned and waited for her phone to return with instructions. vouged (/vuʒd/) adj. Drunk and wielding an imaginary polearm with medieval confidence and modern inconvenience. voulged (/vu(l)ʒd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the room appears to require clearing by an elongated medieval blade. voulgiered adj. Drunk enough to adopt the bearing of a French soldier armed for a less forgiving century. voussoired (/vuˈswɑːrd/) adj. Drunk beyond individual stability, forming one carefully fitted stone in the arch of collective collapse. voussoiringed adj. Drunk in a way that constructs a load-bearing arch from whatever people and furniture are available. Eliason grew voussoiringed, constructing an arch from chairs that collapsed beneath the coats. vovinamed adj. You have drunk enough to practise a Vietnamese martial art against the furniture, usually without weapons. Teaera vovinamed the armchair, confidently attempting a furniture-based martial arts demonstration. vowed (/vaʊd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that produces solemn promises, particularly those concerning conduct abandoned before breakfast. vowel harmonied adj. Drunk on the strength of a phonological rule that obliges neighbouring sounds, and eventually people, to agree. Shaynah became vowel harmonied and rearranged the table so adjacent speakers matched one another. vowel killered adj. The drunkenness of one who has quietly dropped every sound that takes effort, reducing speech to a run of consonants the room must reconstruct unaided. vowel mutationed adj. Reduced by drink to producing familiar words in unfamiliar shapes, the vowels having shifted position overnight without consulting anyone. vowel pointed adj. Reduced by drink to adding small marks to otherwise unfinished words, particularly when explaining last night’s decisions. vowel pointinged adj. Softened by drink into supplying every missing pronunciation mark before attempting the morning’s reading. vowel quantitied adj. Sharpened by drink into measuring each syllable by duration, especially when recounting the route home. vowel reductioned adj. Softened by drink into compressing every carefully formed syllable until what remains is just about acceptable to the surrounding company.