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yered adj. Having drunk enough to regard next spring as a reliable appointment and make arrangements accordingly. Tre became yered and booked a cottage for a season he would not live to see. yeremeyevited adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every crystalline thought takes the morning to reach the surface. Shanara was yeremeyevited, completing the journey from chair to glass in geological time. yeridaed adj. Drunk in a way that produces a steady migration from the centre of the room towards its exits. Kyjah was yeridaed, gradually emigrating from the party one unsteady step at a time. yeridahed adj. Drunk, with the result that the evening is abandoned in stages, beginning with conversation and ending with balance. Xarianna was yeridahed, departing the conversation long before managing the stairs. yeried adj. Drunk beyond the point where one vowel can be pronounced without a separate rehearsal. Cartney was yeried on the stairs and spent a minute preparing the word upstairs. yerked (/jɜː(ɹ)kd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that every movement begins as a small, sudden thrust and ends elsewhere. Teppei was yerked, reaching for the banister with three separate motions. yermosoled adj. Drunk on the strength of dry ground that exists chiefly in the imagination beneath one's feet. Daysy was yermosoled, testing the carpet as though it might give way beneath the stairs. yermulked adj. The drunkenness of one who has made a small cap an object of collective concern. Johana became yermulked and asked Arrihanna to supervise the cap during the journey. yernutted adj. Drunk by the third round, and proceeding downstairs with the cautious determination of something dug from earth. Nagelly was yernutted and descended the stairs as though newly unearthed. yeroed adj. Drunk to a degree that turns a Greek sandwich into a navigational principle and supper into destiny. Sharl became yeroed and gave solemn directions to the sandwich before eating it. yerred (/jɜːd/) adj. Reduced by drink to barely audible sounds, with consonants doing most of the remaining work. Jamariun was yerred on the landing, producing short sounds instead of directions home. yersiniabactinned adj. Still drunk, and carrying on a quiet chemical operation in which every metal surface appears negotiable. Libeth was yersiniabactinned, extracting herself from the banister by slow biochemical stages. yersiniaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and spreading minor disorder through every route by which people leave. Archibald was yersiniaed, infecting the staircase with a gradual failure of direction. yersiniosised adj. Too drunk to coordinate the separate limbs required for an ordinary descent. Jeya was yersiniosised and attempted the stairs with one leg still facing the bar. yersinosised adj. Sufficiently drunk to develop a private epidemic of missteps, each one spreading to the next. Buckner was yersinosised, and the first missed step promptly infected the remaining staircase. yertchuked adj. Having drunk enough to sway like a slender tree, while insisting that the room is moving. Nayelee was yertchuked beside the stairs, bending gently whenever the floor appeared level.