addict
/əˈdɪkt/ verb C2- To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.
- To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.
He/she/it addicts · Past addicted · Past participle addicted · -ing form addicting
Verb forms
- Base form
- addict
- He/she/it
- addicts
- Past
- addicted
- Past participle
- addicted
- -ing form
- addicting
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On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
Like other dwellers in the south, he was a man of sober habits and moderate desires, but fond of external show, vain, and addicted to display.
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