English Explanatory Dictionary

fixate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
  2. To stare fixedly at something.
  3. To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
  4. To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.

Pronunciation

/fɪkˈseɪt/ /ˈfɪkseɪt/ En-us-fixate.oga

Word forms

fixate fixates fixating fixated

Etymology

From fix + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or Latin fixus (“fixed, solid”) + -ate.

Derived words

fixatory refixate
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