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OXFORD DICTIONARY
fix | fix on | fix up | fix-it shop | fixable | fixate | fixation | fixative | fixed | fixed charge | fixed cost

fixate

 : 
Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
 : 
fix=ate

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fixate, v.tr.
1 direct one's gaze on.
2 Psychol. a (usu. in passive; often foll. by on, upon) cause (a person) to acquire an abnormal attachment to persons or things (was fixated on his son). b arrest (part of the libido) at an immature stage, causing such attachment.

Etymology
L fixus (see FIX) + -ATE(3)

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