addicted
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
addicted/əˈdɪktɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 physically dependent on a particular substance.
- 2 informal devoted to a particular interest or activity: he's addicted to computers.
– origin C16: from the obs. adj. addict ‘bound or devoted’, from L. addict-, addicere ‘assign’, from ad- ‘to’ + dicere ‘say’.
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