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Meaning of addict

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  addict
      n 1: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it
           resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a
           bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: {addict}, {nut},
           {freak}, {junkie}, {junky}]
      2: someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance;
         abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal
         symptoms
      v 1: to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on
           something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: {addict},
           {hook}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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