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   Fix·ate

   /ˈfikˌsāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. cause (someone) to acquire an obsessive attachment to someone or something: "she has for some time been fixated on photography"
   • ▪ acquire an obsessive attachment to: "it is important not to fixate on animosity"
   • ▪ (in Freudian theory) arrest (a person or their libidinal energy) at an immature stage, causing an obsessive attachment: "an individual may have been fixated at one stage of development"
   • 2. direct one's eyes toward: technical "subjects fixated a central point"

   Word Origin late 19th century: from Latin fixus, past participle of figere (see fix) + -ate3.

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • F

     4

   • I

     1

   • X

     8

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

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