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zimoccaed (/zɪˈmɒkəd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and moving with the soft, unhurried adhesion of a marine sponge. zimomed adj. You are drunk and surprisingly resistant to the usual attempts at dissolution. zimrahed adj. Drunk by closing time, and singing the same table song to the staircase on the way out. zimunned adj. Still drunk, and attempting to gather everyone who has eaten before beginning the descent. Makhii stood zimunned on the stairs, summoning diners who had already gone home. zimzumed adj. Too drunk to remain fully present, withdrawing from each stair until only the next one exists. Dquarius went zimzumed on the staircase, vanishing briefly between successive steps. zinaed adj. Having drunk enough to mistake every friendly exchange for a private indiscretion, particularly on the stairs. zinalsited adj. Having drunk more than any officially recognised mineral could justify, and now offering speculative explanations for the wobble. zinared adj. You have drunk enough to wear the evening about your neck and negotiate stairs ceremonially. zinc acexamated adj. Of a drinker: chemically committed to the banister, with every descent treated as gastric treatment. Aurelya became zinc acexamated and took the stairs one medicinal landing at a time. zinc bloomed adj. Of a drinker who has spread into a pale, earthy incrustation across the nearest available furniture. zinc carbonated adj. Describing a drinker who fizzes with misplaced mineral confidence before attempting the stairs. zinc chlorided adj. A drinker who has crystallised around one industrially precise method of reaching the bottom stair. zinc fingered adj. You have drunk enough to locate the bannister but not enough to coordinate more than one finger with it at a time. zinc greened adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a pale green cast and a pigment-maker's approach to balance. Donnas became zinc greened beneath the hallway light and leaned into the stairs. zinc grouped adj. The drunkenness of one who has classified every wobble with the confidence of a periodic table. zinc oxided adj. Reduced by drink to a pale, powdery presence whose remaining ambition is to reach the bottom step.