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English Dictionary: addict by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
addict
n
  1. someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"
    Synonym(s): addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky
  2. someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms
v
  1. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
    Synonym(s): addict, hook
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Addict \Ad*dict"\, p. p.
      Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
            [bd]They addict themselves to the civil law.[b8] --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. [bd]Addicted to staying at home.[b8]
               --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.
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