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addicts
1. n. plural of addict
addict
1. n. A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
2. n. An adherent or fan (of something)
3. v. To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a drug
4. v. To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
5. v. (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Example Sentences

He says that video game addicts experience the same highs and lows as drug addicts do.  Figures increasingly show that the more we crack down on drug use, the more drug addicts there are.  The proof of the futility of harsh drug laws is this: in the country that has come down the hardest on drugs and drug users, spending billions of dollars in a decades-long war on drugs, there have never been so many drug addicts.

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