Fixate Definition

fĭksāt
fixated, fixates, fixating
verb
fixated, fixates, fixating
To cause (a person or the eyes) to look at or pay attention to something steadily.
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To focus one's eyes or attention on.
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To make or become fixed.
Webster's New World
To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively.
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In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
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