Definition of addict

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addict

noun

A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
An adherent or fan (of something)

Translations:

Dutch: fan
French: intoxiqué , intoxiquée , accro (slang)
German: Sí¼chtiger

verb

To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug
To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

- They themselves to the civil law. --Evelyn
- He is addicted to his study. --Beaumont & Fletcher
- That part of mankind that their minds to speculations. --Adventurer
- His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. --Fuller
- A man gross ... and addicted to low company. --Macaulay
  1. (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
- The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. --Evelyn

Translations: Etymology: addictus, past participle of addicere, to adjudge, to devote, from ad + dicere, to say; compare diction

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