Usually means: Focuses attention on something obsessively.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixates: Merriam-Webster
  2. fixates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fixates: Vocabulary.com
  4. fixates: Wordnik
  5. fixates: Wiktionary
  6. fixates: Dictionary.com
  7. fixates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fixates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. fixates: Medical dictionary

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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]
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