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vertebroplastied adj. You are drunk and injecting conversational cement into every fractured exchange until movement becomes impossible. vertebrotherapied adj. Of a drinker: spinally corrective in intention, though the treatment consists chiefly of leaning on furniture. verted (/vɜːtd/) adj. Drunk to the point where one presents a sober green face, heraldically and at an unhelpful angle. verteporfinned (/ˌvɜː(ɹ)tɪˈpɔː(ɹ)fɪnd/) adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the morning light is not a treatment and the curtains are doing useful work. vertepped adj. Drunk past the point of keeping the puppet theatre portable; the morning finds you performing from the bedside. vertex angled adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the corner of the bed seem mathematically significant. vertex covered adj. Drunk beyond the capacity to leave any edge of the room untouched, having stationed oneself, with mathematical thoroughness, against all of them. Phoenix was vertex covered and had physically contacted every available surface in the course of a single anecdote. vertex figured adj. Drunk on the strength of having lost a corner of yourself somewhere between the pub and the first cup of tea. vertex formed adj. Drunk since last orders, and now expressing the morning entirely as a quadratic equation. vertex separation numbered adj. Drunk by closing time, and able to measure the morning’s distance only by the gaps between people you offended. vertexed (/ˈvɜː.tɛksd/) adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you at the highest point of the morning, namely the top of the stairs, reconsidering descent. vertexinged adj. Still drunk, and detecting decisive points in the tracks left by your slippers across the kitchen. Mariacecilia was vertexinged, identifying each turn in the slipper marks before attempting breakfast. vertibilitied adj. Too drunk to remain consistent about whether the evening happened, changed shape, or should be discussed. vertical alignmented adj. Having drunk enough to remain upright only while the room’s darkened surfaces continue concealing you. vertical angled adj. Having drunk more than the intersecting lines of the morning can reasonably accommodate. Jarmila woke vertical angled, finding the crossing of the hall and kitchen unusually confrontational. vertical apostrophed adj. You have drunk enough to punctuate every morning remark with the small raised mark of an unfinished thought. Caldwell was vertical apostrophed, adding tiny pauses to each explanation of the missing toast.