addiction

[US]/əˈdɪkʃn/
[UK]/əˈdɪkʃn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a strong dependence on a substance or activity, leading to a compulsive desire and inability to control its consumption or engagement

Phrases & Collocations

drug addiction

addiction to drugs

Example Sentences

had an addiction for fast cars.

one’s addiction to the comics

he beat heroin addiction in 1992.

He finally mastered his addiction to drugs.

In addiction, it can make the person macrobiosis and agerasia.

He is now fighting his addiction to alcohol.

I underwent aversion therapy for my addiction to smoking.

They are trying to cure him of his drug addiction but he is beyond hope.

The most widespread drug addiction is to alcohol,tobacco,and sleeping pills.

Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction, poverty and murder.

His addiction to drugs caused his family much grief.

His addiction to drugs propelled him towards a life of crime.

The children that addiction of contributive deliverance deep clapnet perplexes the government, be like make sense at manage at affection, won't have crosscurrent.

I was worried about Katie getting too involved with Steve so I eventually told her about his drug addiction—you’ve got to be cruel to be kind sometimes.

By binding to certain glutamate receptors, D-cycloserine selectively enhances extinction, suppressing the effects of conditioned associations such as anxiety, addiction and phobias.

During his emerging days at Dynamo Kiev, Andriy Shevchenko was force-fed a vile nicotine-based solution which gruesomely cured his teenage addiction to cigarettes.

Endorphin blockers such as naltrexone can be used to reduce addiction to licking, or endorphin substitutes such as hydrocodone may decrease the urge to lick.

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