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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fixate

1885, "to fix, make stable," from fix (v.) + -ate. Meaning "to gaze upon" is from 1889. Psychological sense is from 1926, originally in Freudian theory, in this case perhaps a back-formation from fixation. Meaning "become fixed" is from 1888. Related: Fixated; fixating.

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fixate

vb. 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 (context psychology English) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner.

WordNet
fixate
  1. v. attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way; "He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40"

  2. pay attention to exclusively and obsessively; "The media are fixating on Princess Diana's death"

  3. make fixed, stable or stationary; "let's fix the picture to the frame" [syn: fix]

  4. become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon" [syn: settle on]

Usage examples of "fixate".

To fixate the assemblage point on any new spot means to acquire cohesion.

Not only had the old sorcerers learned to displace their assemblage points to thousands of positions on the surface or on the inside of their energy masses but they had also learned to fixate their assemblage points on those positions, and thus retain their cohesiveness, indefinitely.

The next step is to stalk it, that is, to fixate it on that position in order to complete the energy body.

Every grand shift has different inner workings which modern sorcerers could learn if they knew how to fixate the assemblage point long enough at any grand shift.

Since by nature the emanations at large are made to fixate what is inside the cocoon, the trick of awareness is to let the fixating emanations merge with what is inside us.

Then, by summoning my dreaming attention through staring at individual leaves, I would actually fixate that minute displacement, and my cohesion would make me perceive in terms of the second attention.

That is to say, the initial position in which a dreamer holds his physical body to begin dreaming is mirrored by the position in which he holds his energy body, in dreams, to fixate his assemblage point on any spot of his choosing.

He fixates on the sight of blood spurting from a white throat or the smell of charred flesh.

The moment the pressure from the emanations at large fixates the emanations inside, the first attention begins to watch itself.

Then she turned to look at all the others in the room, one by one, as their horrified expressions fixated on her neck.

Planning the next move without fear or hate or triumph, dead things fixated on their wired-in purpose of creating yet more death.

He had been fixated on what a neat weapon a breakdown zone would make if you could only throw it at your enemy.

And like any really good Elvis, Bill fixated on a particular crumb of the Presley myth and amplified it gloriously.

Combrit, already handily fixated for them, with a motivation that will make him loyal to what he considers the winning side.

The SK2 was fixating on the prospect of finding nanonics as a way of justifying his own suffering, making the sacrifice and pain worthwhile, which it would be, Simon conceded.