ADDICT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does addict mean? 

• ADDICT (noun)
  The noun ADDICT has 2 senses:

1. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

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

  Familiarity information: ADDICT used as a noun is rare.

• ADDICT (verb)
  The verb ADDICT has 1 sense:

1. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

  Familiarity information: ADDICT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADDICT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

addict; freak; junkie; junky; nut

Context example:

a news junkie

Hypernyms ("addict" is a kind of...):

enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "addict"):

gym rat (someone who spends all leisure time playing sports or working out in a gymnasium or health spa)

Derivation:

addict (to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("addict" is a kind of...):

drug user; substance abuser; user (a person who takes drugs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "addict"):

caffein addict; caffeine addict (someone addicted to caffeine)

drug addict; junkie; junky (a narcotics addict)

speed freak (addict who habitually uses stimulant drugs (especially amphetamines))

Derivation:

addict (to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug))

• ADDICT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they addict ... he / she / it addicts
Past simple: addicted   
Past participle: addicted   
-ing form: addicting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

addict; hook

Hypernyms (to "addict" is one way to...):

accustom; habituate (make psychologically or physically used (to something))

"Addict" entails doing...:

habituate; use (take or consume (regularly or habitually))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

addict (someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms)

addict (someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction)

addiction ((Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master)

addiction (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs))

addictive (causing or characterized by addiction)

 Context examples 

Experts say as many as 2 million Americans are addicted to opioids and President Donald Trump has declared it a national health emergency.

(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)

"Are addicted to having a wife in every port?" he suggested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is easy to lose control over cocaine use and become addicted.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Some people get addicted to marijuana after using it for a while.

(Marijuana, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Semisynthetic derivative of CODEINE that acts as a narcotic analgesic more potent and addicting than codeine.

(OxyContin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is also used to help people who are addicted to opioid drugs such as heroin.

(Methadone hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)

Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He, also, was addicted to crowding her, to veering toward her till his scarred muzzle touched her body, or shoulder, or neck.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He had a considerable independence besides two good livings—and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters.

(Northanger Abbey, 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)