Addiction - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- an abnormally strong craving
- (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master
Extra examples
He has a drug addiction.
His life has been ruined by heroin addiction.
He devotes his summers to his surfing addiction.
She helped him fight his drug addiction.
He needed money to feed his addiction to gambling.
I discovered an addiction to housework which I had never felt before.
He is trying to save his marriage by going to counseling for his drug addiction.
Her drug addiction brought her to the brink of ruin.
Books are an addiction, that, when aroused in earnest, is rarely calmed.
...a novel about a libidinous lawyer who becomes an abject slave to his sexual addiction...
... this movie isn't a soft-pedaled, poignant tale of addiction and recovery—it's just about the addiction.
His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar.
Gambling can all too easily become an addiction (=used to say that something bad is very possible).
From personal experience, she knew and understood the problems of alcohol addiction.
The signs of drug addiction are familiar to most doctors.
Word forms
singular: addiction
plural: addictions
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