WORD: FIXATE
MEANING:
1.
a. To cause (a person or the eyes) to look at or pay attention to something steadily: ""My eyes were fixated on his playful, deep-set brown eyes"" (Bernard Lown).
b. To focus one's eyes or attention on: ""When you fixate the closer of the two fingers, the one further away is seen double"" (Robert F. Schmidt and Gerhard Thews).
2. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: ""TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything"" (Jay Walljasper).
3. Psychology
a. To cause to become emotionally attached in an immature or pathological manner.
b. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. James Comey's memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false
PRONOUNCE:
fix·ate
LINK: FIXATE
MEANING:
1.
a. To cause (a person or the eyes) to look at or pay attention to something steadily: ""My eyes were fixated on his playful, deep-set brown eyes"" (Bernard Lown).
b. To focus one's eyes or attention on: ""When you fixate the closer of the two fingers, the one further away is seen double"" (Robert F. Schmidt and Gerhard Thews).
2. To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: ""TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything"" (Jay Walljasper).
3. Psychology
a. To cause to become emotionally attached in an immature or pathological manner.
b. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. James Comey's memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false
PRONOUNCE:
fix·ate
LINK: FIXATE
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