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venadaed adj. Drunk to the point where the smallest person in the room has acquired the bearing of a deer and the escape instinct of one. Mobeen went venadaed when the landlord approached, slipping behind the fruit machine with woodland dignity. venaed adj. Loosened by drink into a wandering thread through the pub, connecting the tap, the lavatory, and the wrong table. venalitied (/vɪˈnælɪtid/) adj. Drunk enough to regard every favour, opinion, and last pork scratching as open to negotiation. venalizationed adj. Drunk past the point of treating conversation as conversation, and into the market for advantageous remarks. venalnessed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary bargaining, with every promise apparently available for a modest consideration. venanatinned adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the drinker steroidal in confidence but oddly delicate around the edges. Breyona got venanatinned and challenged the pub quiz team before forgetting the question. venanzited adj. Drunk, with the result that the drinker becomes dense, volcanic, and difficult to shift from the hearth. Secondo was venanzited beside the fire, a dark mineral presence among the empty glasses. venaried adj. Having drunk enough to hunt whatever moves, including the paper napkin. venaticaed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a large tree remembering where it left its keys. venatioed adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the hunt for the last round into public entertainment of questionable antiquity. venationed adj. The state of being drunk and tracing every branching line on the tablecloth to its ultimate destination. vencereminned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a minor biochemical response to the heat of the evening. vendabled adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing between things available for purchase and things merely left unattended. vendaced (/ˈvɛndɪsd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a small, pale fish, darting through the conversation and disappearing beneath the table. Javarous went vendaced and spent ten minutes evading a question about the taxi. vendanged adj. Softened by drink into an annual harvest, with the year's remaining dignity gathered in baskets by breakfast. vendavaled adj. Sharpened by drink into a westerly wind, arriving from the coast and rearranging every paper in the room.