What's the difference between addict and indict?

Addict


Definition:

  • (p. p.) Addicted; devoted.
  • (v. t.) To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.
  • (v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
  • (2) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (3) We studied the arterial blood gas determinations done on the first hospital day in 14 narcotic addicts with bacterial endocarditis (group 1) and six addicts with other medical complications of narcotic addiction (group 2).
  • (4) We have investigated the presence of fragments of the HIV genome with a new nucleic acid amplification technique (PCR or polymerase chain reaction) in lymphocytes from 33 seronegative couples with anti-HIV antibodies, most of which were heroin addicts.
  • (5) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
  • (6) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
  • (7) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
  • (8) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (9) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
  • (10) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
  • (11) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (12) Of 242 north Italian heroin addicts, 24 (9.9%) were HBsAg positive.
  • (13) Both groups of addicts had an altered response to oral and intravenous glucose load.
  • (14) Both heroin and alcohol addicts were characterized by a high frequency and magnitude of life change.
  • (15) Grahovac’s addiction arrived on the back of an untreated eating disorder.
  • (16) The WHO said that e-cigarettes should be subject to much tighter restrictions on their use, sale, content and promotion, in a major statement that again highlighted key differences of opinion among medical groups as to whether they will ultimately increase or reduce the number of people addicted to nicotine.
  • (17) But why did a pregnant heroin addict, or Nadia and the mother who put her into care, want to appear?
  • (18) High morbidity of such persons is often contributed to their antisocial way of life, and alcohol and drug addiction.
  • (19) One hundred eighty-eight asymptomatic addicts were studied to determine the frequency of a history of hepatitis (previous episodes of jaundice), abnormalities of liver tests (serum bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, serum albumin, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase) and incidence of HB-Ag and HB-Ab.
  • (20) Paraphilias (PAs) and non-paraphilic sexual addictions (NPSAs) may be behaviors that share a common perturbation of central serotonin neuroregulation as a component of their pathophysiology.

Indict


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
  • (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
  • (v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (2) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
  • (3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (4) Others believe that, despite the fact that some of his closest lieutenants are among those indicted by US authorities, he planned to use the time until the new election to ease a favoured successor into the post.
  • (5) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
  • (6) Judge Morrison intervened: "As you know, Dr Karadzic … it isn't the Serbian people who are indicted in this case, nor the Serbian state.
  • (7) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
  • (8) It was quoted in the grand jury indictment, and later a larger portion was included in one of the prosecution’s filings in the case: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat in which Jahar hid.
  • (9) Some on the right believe it's a damning indictment of the welfare state.
  • (10) It has been clear for months now that Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty was abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment,” the statement said.
  • (11) If an indictment were returned, Clay would have to go for trial.
  • (12) Though things may return to normal, the now official election of Kenyatta, indicted by the international criminal court for committing crimes against humanity five years ago, complicates international diplomatic relationships with Kenya .
  • (13) But the star – who is better known for divisive wins at awards ceremonies and singing about the merits of charity shop bargains – was one of many hip-hop and urban artists who made their voices heard after the grand jury’s decision to not indict Wilson.
  • (14) Prosecutors investigating the case have indicted her friend, Choi Soon-sil , and are seeking to question the president about her role in the scandal.
  • (15) Isn't it a serious indictment of your government's values that while lower and middle income families are being hit, at the same time you are giving an average £107,000 tax cut to people earning over £1m a year?"
  • (16) Initial postulates indicted an immunological mechanism.
  • (17) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
  • (18) "It is an indictment of the failure of his attempts to boost business investment spending that, rather than encouraging a rebalancing of the economy, he now has to resort to policies that will increase its imbalances."
  • (19) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
  • (20) The argument can be made that this meant it was more likely that there would be no indictment,” said Todd Swanstrom, a professor in public policy at the University of Missouri-St Louis.