Aquaholic

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is addicted to consuming too much water.

    "Andrew Else was an aquaholic for 30 years, an inquest into his death heard. Yesterday his brother, Stephen, said he should not have been left alone near free-flowing water."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Addicted to water.
  2. 2
    Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.

    "It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great."

Example

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"It is aquaholic, chronically so. With one-fifth as much water as the East, its withdrawal depletions are four times as great."

Etymology

From aqua + -holic.

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