fixate
[verb]
Synonyms: fasten, concenter, concentrate, fix, focus, put, rivet

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fixate verb. [fɪk'seɪt] L19.
[from Latin fixus (see FIX adjective) + -ATE³.]
1. verb trans. Fix, make stable. Now rare. L19.

2. verb intrans. Be or become fixed. L19.
■ O. Sacks Their eyes roll for a moment, and then fixate.

3. verb trans. Direct one's eyes on, concentrate one's gaze directly on. L19.
■ D. Morris The baby's eyes can now fixate objects.

4. Psychology. Arrest (part of one's libido) at an immature stage, causing an abnormal attachment to persons or things and abnormal emotional responses; cause (a person) to undergo this. Also loosely, in pass., be or become obsessed with. Freq. foll. by on. E20.
■ W. McDougall The libido..of every child normally becomes fixated upon the parent of the opposite sex.
■ R. Quirk We mustn't get fixated on the reception of contemporary fiction.

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