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US
/ˈæˌdɪkt, əˈdɪkt/
]
NOUN
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someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
a car nut
a news junkie
a bodybuilding freak
a golf addict - someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms
VERB
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
How To Use addict In A Sentence
- Genetic factors, scientists believe, account for 70% of cocaine addiction, making it as heritable as schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
- Although alcoholism remains the number one dependency problem among judges and lawyers, the face of addiction continues to change.
- This is exactly the kind of nitwittery that mikey is addicted to. BuzzFlash.net: published
- The wandering wraiths, addicts and drunks that you see around town didn't just come about out of the blue - they were produced by the education system.
- Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
- It's amazing how many reluctant spouses become addicted after this gentle introduction.
- Moreover, he believed very firmly in Christianity as the way of saving human beings, and he addicted to a monkish life.
- I have also struggled, fought and cried because of my addiction to drugs.
- Add in endless plugs in magazines and news bulletins and the less addicted may want to flee the country. Times, Sunday Times
- The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't