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fixate
[ fik-seyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to obsessively concentrate one's attention (usually followed by on ):
Take something away from someone completely and they may fixate on it.
- Psychoanalysis. to develop a fixation; suffer an arrest in one's emotional or sexual development:
The patient fixates in an incestuous libido cycle, seeking to reconnect with an earlier aspect of her history.
- to stabilize or become fixed.
- to focus the eyes on an object or point.
verb (used with object)
- to obsessively concentrate one's attention on.
- Psychoanalysis. to cause (one's psychosexual development) to be arrested at an early point in life.
- to make stable or stationary; fix:
Using cement to fixate the cap on the head of the femur, while initially adding stability, has a chance of loosening in subsequent years.
- to focus (the eyes) on an object or point:
The eye muscles ordinarily fixate the two eyes on a single target.
- to focus the eyes on (an object).
fixate
/ ˈɪɪ /
verb
- to become or cause to become fixed
- to direct the eye or eyes at a point in space so that the image of the point falls on the centre (fovea) of the eye or eyes
- psychol to engage in fixation
- informal.tr; usually passive to obsess or preoccupy
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fixate1
Example Sentences
You also knew that he was fixated on starting a tariff war with America's biggest trading partners and was irrevocably hostile to our long-standing allies around the world.
The world of “Bad Nature” fixates on grievance.
Raducanu, 22, recoiled in horror when she saw a man - who she had already reported for what was described as "exhibiting fixated behaviour" - in the stands of her match in Dubai last month.
He’s fixated on a competition judge who, back in 2016, called his deltoids small.
After practices, instead of thinking about plays that went right, their minds fixate on things that went wrong.
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