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ADDICTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming
Example:
addicted to cocaine
Classified under:
Similar:
alcohol-dependent; alcoholic (addicted to alcohol)
dependant; dependent; drug-addicted; hooked; strung-out (addicted to a drug)
Antonym:
unaddicted (not addicted)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb addict
Context examples:
Among his minor peculiarities are that he is careless as to his attire, unclean in his person, exceedingly absent-minded in his habits, and addicted to smoking a short briar pipe, which is seldom out of his mouth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But this I will say, that his fault, the liking to make girls a little in love with him, is not half so dangerous to a wife's happiness as a tendency to fall in love himself, which he has never been addicted to.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Preventing new patients from becoming addicted to opioids may have a greater effect on the opioid epidemic than providing sustained treatment to patients already addicted, emergency medical specialist Demetrios Kyriacou wrote in the Journal.
(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)
I have been so little addicted to take my opinions from my uncle, said Miss Crawford, that I can hardly suppose—and since you push me so hard, I must observe, that I am not entirely without the means of seeing what clergymen are, being at this present time the guest of my own brother, Dr.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Everybody at all addicted to letter-writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
