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Addicted is a 2002 South Korean thriller film directed by Park Young-hoon and starring Lee Byung-hun and Lee Mi-yeon . In 2009 it was remade into an American film called Possession .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Addict \Ad*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addicted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Addicting .] [L. addictus, p. p. of addicere to adjudge, devote; ad + dicere to say. See Diction .] To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. ``They addict themselves to the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "delivered over" by judicial sentence; past participle adjective from addict (v.). Modern sense of "dependent" is short for self-addicted "to give over or award (oneself) to someone or some practice" (1560s; exact phrase from c.1600); specialization ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming; "she is addicted to chocolate"; "addicted to cocain" [ant: unaddicted ]
Usage examples of addicted.
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.
The cigarette tastes good and it burns my throat and my lungs and though it is the lowest and weakest drug that I am addicted to, it is still a drug and it feels fucking good.
I am not addicted to coffee, it is still a drug and it feels fucking good.