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addict
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Word definitions for addict in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Addict \Ad*dict"\, p. p. Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, in reference to morphine, from addict (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a news junkie" [syn: nut , freak , junkie , junky ] someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug 2 An adherent or fan (of something) vb. 1 To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug 2 To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else. ...
Usage examples of addict.
This exclusive club of cocaine abusers gradually began to recruit new members and, by 1959, 30 heroin addicts in theUKhad tried cocaine.
As a result, we did well academically and ended up going to Harvard over and over again, like addicts.
Marathe was an addicted man waiting for seeking treatment by admission.
At one time over 90 percent of the adult male population of western society was addicted to it.
Someone who has never been addicted to heroin would be horrified to watch an addict self-inject with the drug.
Rather, it is the attitude that someone who has never been addicted to heroin would have towards a heroin addict.
Being addicted to a drug is like spending your whole life attempting to ski uphill.
I have read that babies whose mothers are addicted to heroin will themselves suffer withdrawal pangs.
Consequently, an addictive personality would mean that I wanted to become addicted, not just to nicotine, but to heroin and any other addictive substance.
Peruvians are enslaved by it, and in Colombia whole populations are addicted to it and the process of slow degeneration from its cumulative effects.
He immediately wrote to Martha, warning her that he thought Fleischl-Marxow may have become addicted to cocaine and that she should be very careful when taking the sample he had sent her lest she did the same.
Often those addicted turned out to be not only doctors and dentists but their wives, too.
He was, however, a morphine addict, so seriously addicted that by the time he stood trial atNuremberghe was dosing himself with up to a hundred pills of paracodeine a day.
He names the beverage Dopokoke and proceeds to make a fortune with it - the terrible punchline being that his own son becomes addicted to the drink and eventually dies.
The outlets I depend on, use for survival and have become addicted to are gone, replaced by Doctors and Nurses and Counselors and Rules and Regulations and Pills and Lectures and Mandatory Meals and Jobs in the morning and none of them do a fucking thing for me.