addicting

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Pronunciation
/əˈdɪktɪŋ/

Definition of addicting

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (US)Causing addiction.
    “whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys.”
    “similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting.”
    “When we didn't have narcotics laws, when we could go and buy this stuff like you could candy and potatoes, laudanum was a very addicting drug”
    “Cocaine has been reconceptualized as our most addicting drug and crack is viewed as the most addicting form of cocaine”
    “That is why smoking and intravenous injection are the routes of administration chosen by addicted people and why these routes of administration are so much more addicting than is oral use of the same drug.”
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adj

  1. (US)Causing addiction.
    “whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys.”
    “similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting.”
    “When we didn't have narcotics laws, when we could go and buy this stuff like you could candy and potatoes, laudanum was a very addicting drug”
    “Cocaine has been reconceptualized as our most addicting drug and crack is viewed as the most addicting form of cocaine”
    “That is why smoking and intravenous injection are the routes of administration chosen by addicted people and why these routes of administration are so much more addicting than is oral use of the same drug.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of addict
    “For though in his Nature there is a Tendency to Rational Pleasures, yet this he may, and very frequently does, stifle and extinguish by addicting himself wholly to the Delights and Gratifications of his Sense”
    “Mr. Johnson's communication states that the preparation "has a large sale, and is addicting the public to its use"”

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Etymology

From addict + -ing.

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