addicted

Definitions


[əˈdɪktɪd], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance
(e.g: I became addicted to alcohol very quickly)


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Origin:
mid 16th century: from the obsolete adjective addict ‘bound or devoted (to someone’), from Latin addict- ‘assigned’, from the verb addicere, from ad- ‘to’ + dicere ‘say’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries