nicotine

noun
🔊/ˈnɪkətiːn/
🔊/ˈnɪkətiːn/
[uncountable]
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  1. a poisonous substance in tobacco that people become addicted to, so that it is difficult to stop smoking尼古丁;烟碱
    • The nicotine stains on his fingers told me he was under stress.他手指上的烟痕表明他压力很大。
    • nicotine replacement therapy尼古丁替代疗法
    Topics Social issuesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + nicotine
    • be addicted to
    • be dependent on
    • be stained with
    nicotine + noun
    • addiction
    • craving
    • dependence
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    Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French, from nicotiana (from modern Latin nicotiana (herba) ‘tobacco (plant)’, named after Jean Nicot, a 16th-cent. French diplomat who introduced tobacco to France in 1560) + -ine.