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addiction

/uh-dik-shuhn/US // əˈdɪk ʃən //UK // (əˈdɪkʃən) //

上瘾,成瘾性,成瘾,瘾头

Related Words

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being compulsively committed to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouna habit of activity, often injurious
Synonyms
bag袋子,袋,包包,包bent弯曲的,弯曲,弯的,弯弯曲曲craving渴望,欲望,愿望,瘾头dependence依赖性,依附性,依靠性,依赖关系enslavement奴役,奴隶制,奴役问题,奴隶制度fixation固定,固定化,固定性,定影hang-up挂断电话,挂断,挂起,挂机hook上钩,钩子,钩住,钩inclination倾斜度,倾向性,倾角,倾向jones琼斯,乔恩,琼恩,冯仑kick踢,踢球,踹,踢人monkey猴子,猢狲,猴年马月,猢狲的obsession痴迷,迷恋,执着,执著shot镜头,摄,炮击,镜头下的thing事物,事,事项,事态monkey on back背上的猴子,猴子在背上,猴子背上,猴子的背上sweet tooth爱吃甜食,甜食,爱吃甜食的人,喜爱甜食

Examples

  • Don’t worry, though—with basic research skills and a solid strategy in mind, you’ll be able to sift through the noise and turn your new addiction into a more healthy habit.

  • Still, Morris has gotten some attention by pitching himself as “the great American comeback story” — beating an opioid addiction to turn his life around.

  • If you have an addiction problem, you shouldn’t put someone in a situation where they might be tempted.

  • They’re areas that light up in response to images of food when a person is hungry, or to drug-related images in people with addiction.

  • Experts say addiction has led men to spend money on khat that could have been used for their children’s education or to upgrade the quality of their family’s life.

  • What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?

  • I was talking to one of my friends, who had just recently gotten over a drug addiction, who she tried to talk to about this case.

  • Methamphetamine addiction is central to more than one story.

  • I had graduated NYU just a few years earlier and begun a career in publishing, but the addiction got the best of me.

  • The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.

  • It is most frequent among those whose addiction to alcohol for years has caused repeated paroxysms of delirium tremens.

  • But non-drug addiction is a major crime against the state of Omega.

  • Bagsby was a punchy man, with a bald head, and a nose which betokened his habitual addiction to the fiery grape of Portugal.

  • Addiction to the practice of occult arts had evidently become general in the now semi-orientalized city.

  • The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development of the man's moral nature.

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