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ADDICT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of addict in English

(Definition of addict from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of addict from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of addict

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Parental comorbidity and disorders in offspring of opioid addicts.
Drug liberals normally see addiction as a result of the addict's own choices.
Almost everywhere, sharing of needles by addicts contributes to the propagation of infectious diseases.
Smokers were characterised as addicts who were either incapable of reasoned decision-making, or else suffering from an illness and in need of care.
The majority of these addicts easily gave up their addiction when they came home to a different environment.
The first is based on the belief that 'drugrelated crime' is caused by addicts feeding an insatiable need for expensive illicit drugs.
The policy of prohibition massively inflates the price of drugs and leads the usually hard-up addicts to commit crime to pay for their next fix.
Hospitals all over the country offered special inducements in the way of comfortable wards and appropriate treatment for the cure of opium addicts.
Parenting groups for recovering addicts in a day treatment center.
The present findings with addicts' children have bearing on broader research-based inferences about the relative impact of parents versus neighborhoods on at-risk youth.
Television news addicts are no different from those who avoid television news altogether so far as subjective efficacy, distrust and cynicism are concerned.
Women who are dependent on or addicted to drugs during pregnancy run the risk of making the fetus passively dependent.
In drug addicts, institutional care has effects on social functioning and continued participation in treatment, but such effects are temporary.
Within the hospital system, patients with depression should be physically segregated from psychotic patients and addicts.
In other words, the guarantee of getting paid removes the free-market disincentive to provide care to individuals, including addicts, who cannot afford to pay fees for service.
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Translations of addict

in Chinese (Traditional)
(尤指對有害之物)有癮的人,入迷的人…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(尤指对有害之物)有瘾的人,入迷的人…
in Spanish
adicto, adicta, adicto/ta [masculine-feminine]…
in Portuguese
toxicômano, toxicômana, viciado…
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व्यसनी…
中毒者, 依存症の人, 薬物中毒者(やくぶつちゅうどくしゃ)…
tiryakilik, müptela olma, tiryaki…
toxicomane [masculine-feminine], passionné/-ée [masculine-feminine], dépendant…
addicte, -a…
verslaafde…
எதையாவது செய்வதையோ அல்லது பயன்படுத்துவதையோ நிறுத்த முடியாத ஒரு நபர், குறிப்பாக தீங்கு விளைவிக்கும் ஒன்று…
व्यसनी, आदी…
વ્યસની, आदी…
narkoman (narkotika), tv-narkoman…
missbrukare…
penagih…
der/die Süchtige(r)…
misbruker [masculine], narkoman [masculine], entusiast [masculine]…
عادی (خصوصاً کسی نقصان دہ شے کا)…
наркоман…
наркоман, помешанный на чем-либо…
వ్యసనపరుడు…
مُدمِن…
আসক্ত, যে ব্যক্তি কোনোকিছু করা বা ব্যবহার করা বন্ধ করতে পারে না, বিশেষত ক্ষতিকারক কিছু…
narkoman, závislý člověk…
pecandu…
ผู้ที่หมกมุ่นกับสิ่งใดสิ่งหนึ่งโดยเฉพาะยาเสพติด…
người nghiện…
narkoman/ka, osoba uzależniona, nałogowiec…
중독자…
tossicodipendente, persona dedita a un vizio, persona appassionata di qualcosa…
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