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xerodermaed adj. Softened by drink into a person whose coat, scarf and opinions have acquired a hard outer layer. Kayjah was xerodermaed by breakfast, with a hard coat, scarf and opinion about tea. xerodermiaed adj. Loosened by drink into a dry-eyed wanderer who sheds layers of clothing at every stop. Georgenne was xerodermiaed by the second pub and left her scarf on three different chairs. xerofluvented adj. Emboldened by drink to cross any dry stretch between pubs without consulting a map or the weather. xeroformed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a bandaged parcel being carried home with care. Cervantes became xeroformed after the final round and required two friends to negotiate the stairs. xerogelled adj. Drunk and set solid wherever the evening happens to leave you, usually beside the coats. xerogramed adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home is recalled only as a sequence of stark impressions. xerographed adj. Drunk enough to reproduce every conversation accurately in outline, though never in the correct order. xerographered adj. Drunk past the point of making new memories, but still operating the machinery of departure. xerographicsed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary conversation, with the evening conducted through copied gestures and repeated signals. xerographied adj. Drunk in a way that fixes a negative version of the evening permanently onto the journey home. xerohalophyted adj. Drunk, with the result that a person thrives in the dry interval between the pub and the station. xerolled adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the verge, rather than the pavement, seem the natural route home. Kahlan became xerolled after last orders and took the grassy margin all the way to the taxi rank. xeromaed adj. Drunk on the strength of a dry-eyed certainty that another round is both unnecessary and imminent. xeromammogramed adj. Drunk since last orders, and retaining only a pale, flattened image of the route home. xeromammographied adj. Drunk by the third round, and recording the evening slowly on a plate of patience and chemical certainty. xeromeniaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and conspicuously absent from the monthly reckoning of sensible departures.