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addict

noun
/ˈæd.ɪkt//əˈdɪkt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)

  1. borrowed from addictus

Definitions

  1. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

    • a heroin addict
    • He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
    • Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).

  2. An adherent or fan (of something).

  3. Addicted.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Bound, tied to, obligated.

    2. To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.

    3. To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

      • They addict themselves to the civil law.
      • Having resided some time in this place, we returned to the other country-house which we had left, where lord B— addicted himself so much to hunting, and other male diversions, that I began to think he neglected me […].

    4. To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.

    5. To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.

    6. To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

      • That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

    7. To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity

      To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.

      • His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

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Derived

addictlike, addictology, addictovigilance, cinemaddict, coaddict, cocaine addict, cyberaddict, dope addict, drug addict, nonaddict, pseudoaddict, sex addict, addicting, addictive, readdict

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at addict. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01addict02fan03gathered04mysticism05spiritual06spirits07alcoholic08addicted

A definitional loop anchored at addict. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at addict

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA