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fixate

verb
/fɪkˈseɪt/UK/ˈfɪkseɪt/US

Etymology

From fix + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or Latin fixus (“fixed, solid”) + -ate.

  1. derived from *dʰeygʷ-✻
  2. derived from fīxus
  3. derived from *fixer✻
  4. inherited from fixen
  5. formed as fixate — “fix + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To make something fixed and stable

    To make something fixed and stable; to fix.

  2. To stare fixedly at something.

  3. To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.

    • He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA