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1.1informal Enthusiastically devoted to a particular thing or activity.
‘he's addicted to computers’
‘Ron is perhaps a war addict, but not an adrenalin junkie addicted to the rush of battlefield.’
‘One can lock a child up in a mental hospital because he is addicted to the Internet.’
‘Children addicted to computers are being sent on camping holidays designed to help them kick the habit.’
‘I have learned to be spiritual and meditate a lot, and I am addicted to the computer.’
‘Technologically it points the way but what it lacks is the kind of feature that makes a user addicted to the phone.’
‘I was also addicted to soft drinks so no wonder my teeth are so shot to pieces these days.’
‘David James was famously addicted to computer games back in his Liverpool days.’
devoted to, dedicated to, fond of, partial to, keen on, enthusiastic about, enamoured of, in love with, infatuated with, obsessed with, fixated on, fanatical about
Mid 16th century: from the obsolete adjective addict ‘bound or devoted (to someone’), from Latin addict- ‘assigned’, from the verb addicere, from ad- ‘to’ + dicere ‘say’.