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addict
ad‧dict/ˈædɪkt/ noun [COUNTABLE] [date : 1500-1600; Language : Latin; Origin : past participle of addicere 'to give to formally or legally', from ad- 'to' + dicere 'to say'] 1. someone who is unable to stop taking drugs drug/heroin/morphine etc addict ▪ a recovering heroin addict
2. someone who is very interested in something and spends a lot of time doing it TV/sports etc addict ▪ My nephew is a complete video game addict.
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a drug addict (=someone who cannot stop taking drugs) ▪ At 20 Steve was a drug addict, unemployed and lonely. drug addict heroin addict ▪ a heroin addict COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN cocaine ▪ He's a cocaine addict, and recently his behaviour has deteriorated rapidly. ▪ Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work. drug ▪ Unfortunately, much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts. ▪ At 17 he was a drug addict. ▪ The Marquis of Blandford, a former drug addict, married Becky in 1990. ▪ Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients. ▪ No, a drug addict doesn't get any help. ▪ The people look furtive, like drug addicts, as they take them out in stacks of four or five. ▪ Andrew and Wendy plan to work with drug addicts in Hong Kong and they will soon embark on a two-month trial period. ▪ But when I got to high school, my parents were calling me a drug addict anyway. heroin ▪ I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character. ▪ Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first. ▪ Only with heroin addicts, that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers. ▪ There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict, or both. ▪ Frankfurt has 10,000 registered heroin addicts. ▪ We know he's a heroin addict. ▪ She was sharing a room with a girl called Anita, an ex heroin addict. VERB become ▪ Doug felt momentarily sorry for this man, who had become an addict through no fault of his own. ▪ I did not take to the streets, I did not become a crack addict. ▪ You will probably become an addict and spend much time over the Christmas holiday on fringes for stoles and scarves as well! ▪ Allowed free access to their own reward centers, many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts. ▪ Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties, as had most of his friends. ▪ I became a total bird addict. ▪ I have in fact become something of an addict of detector technology. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A lot of women drug addicts become prostitutes in order to get money to buy drugs. ▪ a television addict ▪ Heroin addicts run an increased risk of getting AIDS. ▪ It's difficult for most smokers to admit that they are addicts. ▪ Many addicts refuse to go to treatment centers. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And strict application of the law would deny an addict the possibility of rehabilitation. ▪ Here they began a small home for alcoholics and drug addicts. ▪ I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character. ▪ It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors. ▪ Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work. ▪ Read in studio Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close. ▪ She said she had seen no evidence that the abandoned house was used by drug addicts.
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