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/ədˈɪkt/ /ˈædˌɪkt/ Listen

Addict

verb

(past & past part. addicted; pres. part. addicting)

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

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... that it can be proper to none who is not in his nature social. Now, society is agreeable to no creatures who are not inoffensive to each other; and we therefore observe in animals who are entirely guided by nature that it is cultivated by such only, while those of more noxious disposition addict themselves to solitude, and, unless when prompted by lust, or that necessary instinct implanted in them by nature for the nurture of their young, shun as much as possible the society of their own species. If therefore there should be found some human individuals of so savage a habit, ...

— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

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