• (noun)
  • enPR: ăʹ.dĭkt, IPA: /ˈæ.dɪkt/
• (verb)
  • enPR: ə-dĭktʹ, IPA: /əˈ.dɪkt/

addict (plural addicts)

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

   He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.

2. An adherent or fan (of something)

• (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave
• (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue
• See also Thesaurus:addict

• addiction
• addictive
• dictate

• French: dépendant, dépendante, intoxiqué, intoxiquée f, accro m (slang)
• German: Süchtiger
• Italian: dipendente
• Portuguese: viciado, adicto
• Russian: зави́симый
• Spanish: drogadicto, adicto, toxicómano

• Portuguese: fanático, entusiasta

addict (addicts, present participle addicting; past and past participle addicted)

1. To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a drug
2. To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
   • 25 October 1644 (date in diary), John Evelyn, Diary

     They addict themselves to the civil law.

   • 1625, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 3, scene 5:

     He is addicted to his study.

   • That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.

   • 1662 (published), Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England

     His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 4, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

3. (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
   • 18 April, 1680 (date in diary), John Evelyn, Diary

     The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.

• (cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug) get (someone) hooked
• (devote) consecrate, dedicate, devote
• (adapt) adapt, fit

• German: süchtig machen
• Portuguese: viciar
• Spanish: causar adicción en, volver adicto

• Portuguese: viciar-se