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The Chinese word 灌醉 (guànzuì) is a verb-object compound verb formed by combining the character 灌, meaning "to pour" or "to force-feed (a liquid)," with the character 醉, meaning "drunk" or "intoxicated." Literally, it describes the action of "pouring [alcohol] until [someone is] drunk." The construction follows a common syntactic pattern where the first character denotes the causative action (灌 - to force-drink), and the second character denotes the resulting state (醉 - drunkenness), thus creating a single term that means "to get someone drunk (often by urging or forcing them to drink alcohol)."