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addict

[n. ad-ikt; v. uh-dikt]

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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.

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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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The man in the camouflage pants was not an addict but an undercover narcotics officer.

One lucky person was selected to be the addict and one was designated as the confronter.

Just how many of those leaves an addict needs seems to vary from person to person, and here the reason is not well known.

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The man in the camouflage pants was not an addict but an undercover narcotics officer.

One lucky person was selected to be the addict and one was designated as the confronter.

Just how many of those leaves an addict needs seems to vary from person to person, and here the reason is not well known.

My father was a drug addict alcoholic who frequented the local jail.

Many people still chalk up the destructive behavior of a drug addict to a lack of willpower or weakness of character.

And it's enough to convince a coffee addict to give tea a chance.

Except that it lay next to the paraphernalia of a crack cocaine addict.

Her unique voice and poignant rhythms invaded the idle afternoon hours of many a caffeine addict.

Anyone dealing with an addict knows that relapse doesn't happen when things are going great.

The drug addict is a sick man, and therefore doesn't belong in jail.

They entice them to try hard drugs which addict and create a more frequent return customer.

Addiction treatment and recovery resources for the addict and their families http://wwwaddictiontreatmentnet.

By definition, someone who is an addict or someone who is in deep financial debt is not free.

If your an addict what does it tell you about human willpower.

Matt is a history teacher his twin brother, greg, is a drug addict.

It's as if the entire culture is as addicted to bluefin as an addict is to the drug he/she uses.

Take for instance, an addict: typically, the addict acts out of a desire which he does not want to act upon.

Epstein to believe he may have been an addict who was robbing to feed his addiction.

Another of my bright students was a female recovering heroin addict with a real work-ethic problem.

Some rejected it for producing a powerful sedative effect that makes it difficult for a recovering addict to perform job duties.

Espinosa, a cocaine and heroin addict in desperate need.

Forcing a heroin addict to quit cold turkey is extremely painful for the addict.

It isn't necessary to be a cocaine addict to concede that communication devices are compulsive.

The authorities have started paper work to deny a pregnant drug addict custody of her two babies.

Someone who has become an addict or is in deep financial debt due to gambling is suffering the consequences his decisions.

Soon later, they sent the addict packing with a referral for rehab.

When the doctors were ready to send the antiseptic addict home, he claimed to be.

If one holds that the economy can exhibit diseconomies of scale then by definition it cannot act as an addict would.

Once a recovered addict encounters these cues back in the real world though, they often relapse.

She was an opium addict who had numerous affairs and gambled away a lot of her family fortune.

If you try to cure a drug addict by taking away his drugs immediately, he dies.

The witness who had allegedly seen the duo turned out to be a heroin addict who gave inconsistent accounts.

The deaths of two others, a cocaine addict and a mentally ill.

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World English Dictionary

addict

—vb (often foll by to)
1.	to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, esp a narcotic drug)

—n
2.	a person who is addicted, esp to narcotic drugs
3.	informal a person who is devoted to something: a jazz addict

[C16: (as adj and as vb; n use C20): from Latin addictus given over, from addīcere to give one's assent to, from ad- to + dīcere to say]

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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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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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