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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
fix·ate       [fik-seyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -at·ed, -at·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1.to fix; make stable or stationary.
–verb (used without object)
2.to become fixed.
3.Psychoanalysis. to develop a fixation; suffer an arrest in one's emotional or sexual development.
[Origin: 1880–85; < L fix(us) fixed, firm (see fix) + -ate1]
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fix·ate       (fĭk'sāt')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   fix·at·ed, fix·at·ing, fix·ates

v.   tr.
  1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
  2. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.
  3. 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).
  4. Psychology
    1. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.
    2. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

v.   intr.
  1. To focus the eyes or attention.
  2. Psychology
    1. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.
    2. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fixate  (v.)
1926, originally in Freudian theory, a back-formation from fixation (1393), an alchemical word which had been used in the Freudian sense since 1910; see fix.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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fixate

verb
1. 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" 
4. become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon" 

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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

fixate fix·ate (fĭk'sāt')
v. fix·at·ed, fix·at·ing, fix·ates

  1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
  2. To focus one's eyes or attention on.
  3. To develop a fixation; become attached to in an immature or neurotic way.

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Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: fix·ate
Pronunciation: 'fik-"sAt
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: fix·at·ed; fix·at·ing
transitivesenses
1 : to focus one's gaze on
2 : to direct (the libido) toward an infantile form of gratification fixate intransitive senses
1 : to focus or concentrate one's gaze or attention fixate on a light held before him —Journal of the American MedicalAssociation>
2 : to undergo arrestment at a stage of development

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