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vert ramped adj. Drunk enough to attempt a horizontal-to-vertical transition without identifying which surface is which. vertalined adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary alertness and into the obscure alkaloidal register of botanical intoxication. vertaxed adj. Drunk beyond reliable balance, yet determined to make the spinning object vertical before surrendering it. vertebered adj. Drunk in a way that gives the spine several independent opinions about which direction constitutes upright. vertebraectomied adj. Having drunk enough to excise the central support from every plan, leaving the evening without a backbone. Rathanak vertebraectomied the evening’s plans, leaving nobody sure what happened next. vertebraed (/ˈvɜː.tɪb.ɹəd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that the back has become a succession of articulating arguments rather than one coherent support. vertebral arched adj. Drunk to the extent of forming a posterior arch around whatever remains of one's judgement. vertebral arteried adj. Drunk on the strength of a circulation that has ascended through the neck and united somewhere above sensible conversation. vertebral canalled adj. Drunk since last orders, and preserving a narrow passage through which a final coherent thought may still travel. vertebral columned adj. Drunk by the third round, and still maintaining a protective central series for the nervous business of getting home. Mikaylee became vertebral columned and guarded her remaining composure along a central axis. vertebraled (/ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹəld/) adj. Drunk to a degree that the top of the back acquires the formal, overlapping arrangement of a snake's dorsal scales. Ariely was vertebraled across the back, with overlapping scales suggested by the waistcoat. vertebrated (/ˈvɛɹ.tɪ.bɹeɪtd/) adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though the possession of a backbone constituted a complete account of direction. vertebrationed adj. Too drunk to remain a single flexible person, and gradually forming a more serviceable internal framework. Saerlaith became vertebrationed, gradually forming an internal framework more serviceable than the original arrangement. vertebrectomied adj. Having drunk more than the spine can reasonably support, and conducting the evening as though its central section were absent. Laissa became vertebrectomied and approached the staircase without the usual assistance of a backbone. vertebred adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat each movement of the back as a separate joint consultation. vertebrologied adj. You have drunk enough to prescribe spinal treatment for strangers whose posture has not requested it.