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addict
[ noun ad-ikt; verb uh-dikt ]
noun
- Sometimes Offensive.
- a person who has become physically or psychologically dependent on a chemical substance:
The leader of the addiction recovery center is, importantly, a self-identified former drug addict.
- a person with an uncontrolled compulsion to continue engaging in an activity despite suffering negative personal or professional consequences:
The funding is for treatment programs for sex addicts and pathological gamblers.
- a devoted fan; enthusiast; devotee: My kids are manga addicts.
She’s a real baseball addict.
My kids are manga addicts.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to become physically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.
The documentary claimed that the tobacco industry used marketing techniques to addict new generations of children.
- to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively: There was a lot of worry about children becoming addicted to video games.
It can be hard to read a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language.
There was a lot of worry about children becoming addicted to video games.
addict
verb
- tr; usually passiveoften foll byto to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp a narcotic drug)
noun
- a person who is addicted, esp to narcotic drugs
- informal.a person who is devoted to something
a jazz addict
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Other Words From
- ad·dict·ing adjective
- non·ad·dict noun
- non·ad·dict·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of addict1
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Example Sentences
He cast her as Hope, an ex-addict with an impressive pair of fake chompers—the result of years of drug abuse.
They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.
He was an on-and-off drug addict and sometimes a criminal; he was a collector of switchblades and vintage Disney T-shirts.
Because they agree that Ty Burrell looks like Jon Hamm if Jon Hamm were a crack addict?
If you are a real poet, you are hooked more deeply than any narcotics addict could possibly be on heroin.
As soon as he mentioned the fact that Ansaldo's assistant Marina was a morphine addict, Santiago interrupted him.
The streets were almost deserted, except for some prowler or desperation-driven drug addict.
Nor is he allowed to prescribe narcotics for an addict without decreasing the dosage.
The Cure was a brief hell, but it was fair payment for having had his fun, and if the addict had any guts he would face it.
And it is a very risky thing for a woman to marry an addict with the idea of reforming him.
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