泥酔

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 泥酔, read でいすい, denotes extreme drunkenness or being dead drunk.
• Basic usage: 宴で泥酔し describes a person becoming heavily drunk; 泥酔場面 names a staged scene of drunkenness.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Drunken state and scene compound
  • The verb form predicates severe intoxication, while the direct compound labels a scene depicting it; the term is stronger than mild tipsiness.