fixate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fixate (third-person singular simple present fixates, present participle fixating, simple past and past participle fixated)
- (transitive) To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
- To stare fixedly at something.
- (intransitive) To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on.
- 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 202:
- He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.
- (intransitive, psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner; used with on.
Translations
[edit]to make something fixed
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to stare fixedly
to attend to the exclusion of others
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psychology: to attach oneself to a person
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