fixate
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- v attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way
He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40 - v pay attention to exclusively and obsessively
- v make fixed, stable or stationary
- v become fixed (on)
Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon
- So Americans still fixate on the dollar value of their houses--we're literally too invested in them not to--and most of HGTV's top-rated shows are still about buying and selling.
- With a dictator overthrown and schools being rebuilt, why should the press fixate solely on violence and dramatics? Of course, the Bush team didn't have this scruple when the .
- Foreign journalists especially, Alexander says, tend to fixate on the material accoutrements of kingship, asking "'What about the crown, the jewels, the gold?'.