addicted

Etymology

adj

  1. Having a biochemical addiction.
  2. Devoted to or obsessed with something.
    […] 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. 1834, William Swainson, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural History, page 26

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of addict

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