[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Sometimes Offensive.a person who has become physically or psychologically dependent on a chemical substance:The leader of the addiction recovery center is, importantly, a self-identified former drug addict.a person with an uncontrolled compulsion to continue engaging in an activity despite suffering negative personal or professional consequences:The funding is for treatment programs for sex addicts and pathological gamblers.Synonyms: junkie , fanatic , adherent", "a person who has become physically or psychologically dependent on a chemical substance:The leader of the addiction recovery center is, importantly, a self-identified former drug addict.", "a person with an uncontrolled compulsion to continue engaging in an activity despite suffering negative personal or professional consequences:The funding is for treatment programs for sex addicts and pathological gamblers.", "a devoted fan; enthusiast ; devotee : My kids are manga addicts.She’s a real baseball addict.My kids are manga addicts."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cause to become physically or psychologically dependent on an addictive substance, as alcohol or a narcotic.The documentary claimed that the tobacco industry used marketing techniques to addict new generations of children.", "to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively: There was a lot of worry about children becoming addicted to video games.It can be hard to read a writer addicted to the use of high-flown language.There was a lot of worry about children becoming addicted to video games."]}]