addict

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction

   a golf addict

2. 2
   verb

   to cause someone or oneself to become dependent on something, especially a narcotic drug

   I was addicted to cocaine, which required me to go to rehab.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

   a heroin addict

4. 4
   verb

   To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

   They addict themselves to the civil law.

5. 5
   verb

   To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.

   That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

6. 6
   verb

   To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.

   His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

7. 7
   noun

   someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance

8. 8
   noun

   An adherent or fan (of something).

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)