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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
addict
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug addict (=someone who cannot stop taking drugs)
▪ At 20 Steve was a drug addict, unemployed and lonely.
drug addict
heroin addict
▪ a heroin addict
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cocaine
▪ He's a cocaine addict, and recently his behaviour has deteriorated rapidly.
▪ Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
drug
▪ Unfortunately, much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts.
▪ At 17 he was a drug addict.
▪ The Marquis of Blandford, a former drug addict, married Becky in 1990.
▪ Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.
▪ No, a drug addict doesn't get any help.
▪ The people look furtive, like drug addicts, as they take them out in stacks of four or five.
▪ Andrew and Wendy plan to work with drug addicts in Hong Kong and they will soon embark on a two-month trial period.
▪ But when I got to high school, my parents were calling me a drug addict anyway.
heroin
▪ I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.
▪ Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.
▪ Only with heroin addicts, that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers.
▪ There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict, or both.
▪ Frankfurt has 10,000 registered heroin addicts.
▪ We know he's a heroin addict.
▪ She was sharing a room with a girl called Anita, an ex heroin addict.
■ VERB
become
▪ Doug felt momentarily sorry for this man, who had become an addict through no fault of his own.
▪ I did not take to the streets, I did not become a crack addict.
▪ You will probably become an addict and spend much time over the Christmas holiday on fringes for stoles and scarves as well!
▪ Allowed free access to their own reward centers, many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts.
▪ Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties, as had most of his friends.
▪ I became a total bird addict.
▪ I have in fact become something of an addict of detector technology.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A lot of women drug addicts become prostitutes in order to get money to buy drugs.
▪ a television addict
▪ Heroin addicts run an increased risk of getting AIDS.
▪ It's difficult for most smokers to admit that they are addicts.
▪ Many addicts refuse to go to treatment centers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And strict application of the law would deny an addict the possibility of rehabilitation.
▪ Here they began a small home for alcoholics and drug addicts.
▪ I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.
▪ It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors.
▪ Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
▪ Read in studio Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close.
▪ She said she had seen no evidence that the abandoned house was used by drug addicts.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Addict

Addict \Ad*dict"\, p. p. Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]

Addict

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.]

  1. To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. ``They addict themselves to the civil law.''
    --Evelyn.

    He is addicted to his study.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
    --Adventurer.

    His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
    --Fuller.

    A man gross . . . and addicted to low company.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.]

    The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.
    --Evelyn.

    Syn: Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, addicted to vice; addicted to sensual indulgence. ``Addicted to staying at home.''
    --J. S. Mill. Devote is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, devoted to science. Consecrate and dedicate express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, consecrated to the service of the church; dedicated to God.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
addict

1530s (implied in addicted), from Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "to deliver, award, yield; give assent, make over, sell," figuratively "to devote, consecrate; sacrifice, sell out, betray" from ad- "to" (see ad-) + dicere "say, declare" (see diction), but also "adjudge, allot." Earlier in English as an adjective, "delivered, devoted" (1520s). Related: Addicted; addicting.

addict

1909, in reference to morphine, from addict (v.).

Wiktionary
addict

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. 3 (context obsolete English) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

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WordNet
addict

  1. 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]

  2. someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms

  3. v. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: hook]

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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.