FIXATE meaning: Focus attention obsessively on something

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fixate: Merriam-Webster
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fixate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (fixate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
▸ verb:  To stare fixedly at something.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To attend to something to the exclusion of all others. [with on]
▸ verb:  (intransitive, psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner. [with on]

Similar:

fix, settle on, defix, stabilify, focalize, stare, lock in, stabilize, staw, settle, more...

Opposite:

unfixated, unfocused, unattached

Types:

obsess, dwell, ruminate, ponder, contemplate, muse, speculate, more...

Phrases:

fixate on, fixate upon, more...

Colors:

charcoal, obsidian, onyx, graphite, midnight blue, more...

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