habit-forming
[hab-it-fawr-ming]
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adjective
tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
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Origin of habit-forming
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Examples from the Web for habit-forming
Contemporary Examples of habit-forming
It is like a habit-forming drug that, in victory, saps your elation and, in defeat, deepens your despair.
Historical Examples of habit-forming
Language-study is essentially a habit-forming process, so we must learn to form habits.
The Principles of Language-StudyHarold E. Palmer
The statement made by its manufacturers that this preparation is free from narcotics or habit-forming drugs is not true.
No wonder, then, that many a one of these patients takes to the use of habit-forming drugs to produce sleep.
PsychotherapyJames J. Walsh
He knows that in the stock of habit-forming drugs that he uses in his profession lies the material which will brace him up.
Habits that HandicapCharles B. Towns
Tobacco Redeemer contains no habit-forming drugs of any kind.
habit-forming
adjective
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habit-forming
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