addicted

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ad·dict·ed BrE [əˈdɪktɪd] NAmE [əˈdɪktɪd] adjective not before noun
1. ~ (to sth) unable to stop taking harmful drugs, or using or doing sth as a habit
•to become addicted to drugs/gambling
•It did not take James very long to get addicted.
2. ~ (to sth) spending all your free time doing sth because you are so interested in it
•He's addicted to computer games.

Word Origin:
[addicted] mid 16th cent.: from the obsolete adjective addict ‘bound or devoted (to someone)’, from Latin addict- ‘assigned’, from the verb addicere, from ad- ‘to’ dicere ‘say’.

Example Bank:
•She had become addicted to tranquillizers.