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wit toothed adj. Reduced by drink to a rearward, late-emerging thought, painful chiefly when breakfast is attempted. wit's ended adj. Drunk past the point of reason, and treating last orders as a personal betrayal. wit-crackered adj. Softened by drink into a maker of jokes too brittle to survive the morning after. wit-wantonned adj. The state of being drunk and indulging foolish theories about the shortest route home. witanned (/ˈwɪtənd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a council of one, convened at breakfast and adjourned without resolution. Zavyer was witanned at the kitchen table, addressing the assembled spoons on matters of national importance. witbiered adj. Of a drinker: pale, yeasty and regretting the brightness of the morning. witblitsed adj. Loosened by drink into raw spirit, colourless in the face and powerful enough to dissolve breakfast plans. witch aldered adj. Drunk enough to grow low, woody and unassuming beneath the breakfast table until conditions improve. witch balled adj. Drunk past the point of trusting the windows, and hanging a glass sphere against the morning's ill fortune. witch bottled adj. Describing a drinker who seals away every sensible objection as though it were protection against spells. witch doctored (/ˈwɪtʃ ˌdɒktəd/) adj. A drinker who diagnoses supernatural causes for ordinary mistakes and prescribes another round. Dare got witch doctored and treated the missing keys with a ceremonial toast. witch doctressed adj. The condition of a drinker who offers feminine expertise in curing troubles that are not present. witch elmed adj. The drunkenness of one who mistakes every spreading branch for evidence supporting a forestry decision. witch grassed adj. The condition of a drinker who has spread through the beer garden and taken root wherever space permits. Royden was witch grassed, spreading through the beer garden wherever a chair permitted. witch hatted adj. Reduced by drink to wearing an imaginary cone while issuing unusually broad instructions. Estellar became witch hatted and reorganised the supper around an invisible brim. witch hazelled adj. Softened by drink into treating every yellow flower as proof that the garden agrees with you. Avetis grew witch hazelled and appointed the nearest shrub to settle the argument.