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fixate

fix·ate [ fík sàyt ] (past and past participle fix·at·ed, present participle fix·at·ing, 3rd person present singular fix·ates)


verb 
Definition:
 
1. intransitive verb focus on something: to focus exclusively on something

2. transitive verb obsess somebody: to obsess or preoccupy somebody or something totally

3. transitive and intransitive verb psychology form a fixation: to form or have a psychological fixation with a person or object

4. transitive and intransitive verb become or make fixed: to make something stable or secure, or become so

[Late 19th century. < Latin fix- (see fix)]
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