Synonym: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation. Similar words: addictive, diction, addict, addicted, dictionary, prediction, valediction, benediction. Meaning: [æ'dɪkʃən] 
n. 1. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) 2. an abnormally strong craving 3. (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master.
n. 1. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) 2. an abnormally strong craving 3. (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master. 
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31. I ate so much of it one day I was sick and that cured me of my addiction.
32. Addiction to drugs can bring a multitude of other problems.
33. His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar.
34. For drug addicts, the need to feed the addiction takes priority over everything else.
35. He committed both crimes to feed his addiction to heroin.
36. Issues such as drug addiction require sensitive handling when featured in TV dramas.
37. Through her drug addiction she had inflicted a lot of pain on the family.
38. He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.
39. The signs of drug addiction are familiar to most doctors.
40. Only a year ago,[http://sentencedict.com/addiction.html] he was on the rack with a heroin addiction that began when he was 13.
41. They are trying to cure him of his drug addiction but he is beyond hope.
42. Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction, poverty and murder.
43. Langford in particular had a juvenile addiction to these.
44. Help me give up my addiction to Hope. Chuck Palahniuk 
45. And addiction to crack spreads to the shires.
46. They have developed drug addiction in the communities.
47. Attitudes to addiction are complicated and often contradictory.
48. Addiction led to theft and violence.
49. She gives me antibiotics for my heroin addiction.
50. This addiction to self-abuse began to tell on me.
51. Do all pleasurable experiences produce life-long addiction?
52. But there's a darker side to chocolate addiction.
53. Twenty-five percent were there for drug and alcohol addiction.
54. Many are afflicted by alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression.
55. Her addiction to alcohol ruined her life.
56. Ashley's life was ruled by her addiction to drugs.
57. The biggest hurdle is breaking the addiction.
58. She used the drugs to feed her personal addiction.
59. Addiction to drugs, tobacco, or gambling are obvious examples.
60. And people vary, too, in their susceptibility to addiction.
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