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Addicted

[uh-dik-tid]

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adjective

devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit-forming (usually followed by to): to be addicted to drugs.

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Origin:
1550–60; addict + -ed²

Related forms

ad·dict·ed·ness, noun

non·ad·dict·ed, adjective

un·ad·dict·ed, adjective

well-ad·dict·ed, adjective

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Example Sentences

Most people who experiment with drugs, then, do not become addicted.

McElrathbey took custody of his brother this summer from his mother, who is apparently addicted to crack cocaine.

For days, sometimes weeks, the addicted animals pressed the cocaine levers in the hope of getting high.

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Most people who experiment with drugs, then, do not become addicted.

McElrathbey took custody of his brother this summer from his mother, who is apparently addicted to crack cocaine.

For days, sometimes weeks, the addicted animals pressed the cocaine levers in the hope of getting high.

And for riders addicted to the rush of pant-flapping velocity, there is no alternative choice.

And, severely addicted people on certain narcotics not only need help in getting off their addiction.

The idea that two women in one neighborhood were addicted to a soft drink stunned me.

If you can't stop ordering dopamine, you're probably addicted.

Further evidence of how easily youngsters become addicted to nicotine comes from studies of quit rates among adolescent smokers.

How rare such places have become in a society addicted to quick fixes, executive summaries, and idiot's guides.

The lifelong teetotaller and anti-smoker was addicted to sleeping pills.

And for snowboarders addicted to the sounds of jacket-flapping velocity, there is no other option.

First, treatment seekers may be more severely addicted than self-changers.

These are probably perfect for the kind of obsessive person addicted to tweaking.

And as drug use rises in society, they added, the number of addicted nurses is probably increasing.

Though readers might feel addicted to their blogs, participants in the study did not report feeling overloaded.

Governments are addicted to debt, consumers addicted to cheap goods.

And for snowboarders addicted to the sound of jacket-flapping speed, there is no alternative.

Most users do not become addicted, while a minority do become addicted.

But odds are good that you'll get addicted to exploring each level carefully to find all the cleverly buried treasure.

Addicted prisoners cause problems outside the walls.

So, the small problem is that she is addicted to producing such drivel.

His sentence was ordered to be reconsidered after it was found that the judge was addicted to marijuana at the time.

It won't be easy for a world addicted to fossil fuels to limit emissions.

Addicted folks are celebrating and having a good time in their mind.

Eventually you lose contact with everyone who isn't also addicted to it.

Many of those arrested are heavily addicted to the smokable form of cocaine and commit crimes to support their habits.

She hedged but then admitted her drug addicted mother had come back into her life.

And for boarders addicted to the sounds of pant-flapping velocity, there is no alternative.

Addicted zebrafish recruited in fight against smoking.

And for snowboarders addicted to the sound of pant-flapping velocity, there is no alternative.

In an attempt to return to normal the now addicted person fruitlessly repeats the activity compulsively.

They become addicted to brilliant light and uncluttered horizons.

The author must need be too addicted to oil to see that possibility.

Like how bad it must have been coming off the drugs she was addicted to while dealing with the horrible jail conditions.

If you take opioids as prescribed you will become addicted.

And for riders addicted to the sounds of pant-flapping speed, there is no alternative.

Yet crack addicted babies were not monitored after leaving hospitals, foster homes and schools to gauge long term effects.

If you give the dog attention all the time, he learns to become addicted to it.

Many young people were addicted to heroin and ended up dying.

Hawke's youngest daughter and her husband sought help for their heroin use after doctors said their son was born addicted to the.

Most gripe sessions in the college-faculty lunchroom these days include complaints that today's students are addicted to praise.

Just, because a person uses something addictive, does not mean a person has to become addicted.

The primary problem mentioned in the article: we're addicted to our gadgets.

Sheen at the moment: he is addicted to explaining himself on the air.

My son's girlfriend is now addicted to the rice game.

By his late teens he was addicted to crack cocaine and methamphetamine.

Warning: they may get addicted and send you out to the store for the later.

Goodwin estimated that a third to half of those addicted to a given drug may have genetic susceptibilities to.

Often addicted to drugs, they tend to be unable to cope with life either inside prison or outside.

Of course that makes it easier to regulate people who are addicted without them going overboard.

Smokers are addicted so their decision-making is fatally impaired.

Actually, rapists are probably addicted to female alarm pheromone.

They become addicted to the rush of endorphins released by the starving body.

Better they return well-adjusted rather than hardened and still addicted.

One told me that they had become physically addicted to blood loss.

The homeless have high levels of hypertension and are more likely to be addicted to smoking, alcohol and other drugs.

Nicotine addicted alcoholic reproduces in the usual manner.

Those who are addicted to some aspect of the physical.

We may as well be comfortable and peaceful while being addicted.

It is possible to become addicted to characters in a book though.

The chemical is replaced by vegetable lecithin and when ingested disallows one to get addicted.

Thus the parlous state of modeling and the concomitant need for modesty among those addicted to central planning.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a person who is addicted to an activity, habit, or substance: a drug addict.

verb (used with object)

to cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.

to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively: a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language; children addicted to video games.

Origin:
1520–30; < Latin addictus assigned, surrendered (past participle of addīcere, equivalent to ad- ad- + dic- (variant stem of dīcere to fix, determine) + -tus past participle suffix)

Related forms

non·ad·dict, noun

non·ad·dict·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. adherent, devotee; fanatic; junkie.

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Word Origin & History

addict

1520s, adj., "delivered, devoted," from L. addictus, pp. of addicere "to deliver, award, yield, devote," from ad- "to" + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Modern sense is really self-addicted "to give over or award (oneself) to someone or some

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practice" (c.1600); specialization to narcotics dependency is from c.1910. The noun is first recorded 1909, in reference to morphine. Related: Addicted (1530s, "delivered over" by judicial sentence; modern meaning "dependent on a drug" from 1913); adj. addictive (1939 in the narcotics sense).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

addict ad·dict (ə-dĭkt')
v. ad·dict·ed, ad·dict·ing, ad·dicts
To become or cause to become compulsively and physiologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. n. (ād'ĭkt)
One who is addicted, as to narcotics.

ad·dic'tive adj.

Slang Dictionary

addict definition

n.
someone showing a strong preference for something or someone. (Not related to drug addiction.) : Sam is a real opera addict. He just loves the stuff.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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