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.

Verb

addicted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of addict
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