addicted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɪktɪd/

Adjective

addicted (comparative more addicted, superlative most addicted)

1. Having a biochemical addiction.
2. Devoted to or obsessed with something.
   • 1834 , William Swainson, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History, p. 26:

     […] he was from his childhood addicted to study, and ever since he came to the use of reason so great a husband of his time, as not to let slip unoccupied the least fragment of it.

Translations

having an insatiable need for a biochemical substance

• Azerbaijani: asılı
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• Hungarian: függő (hu)
• Maori: warawara

Verb

addicted

1. simple past and past participle of addict