fixate (English, verb)
expansion: fixate (third-person singular simple present fixates, present participle fixating, simple past and past participle fixated)
Senses:
glosses: To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
tags: transitive
glosses: To stare fixedly at something.
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on]
glosses: To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
tags: intransitive
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on]
glosses: To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: fixates
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fixating
tags: participle
present
form: fixated
tags: participle
past
form: fixated
tags: past