Definitions for fixate

fixate fix·ate

Spelling: [fik-seyt]
IPA: /ˈfɪk seɪt/

Fixate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in fixate (aefitx).

Definitions for fixate

verb (used with object)

  1. to fix; make stable or stationary.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become fixed.
  2. Psychoanalysis. to develop a fixation; suffer an arrest in one's emotional or sexual development.

Origin of fixate

1880-85; Latin fix(us) fixed, firm (see fix) + -ate1

Examples for fixate

You can fixate your brain on "Potent Potables" for five progressively harder questions, then on "Kings of England" for five more.

I kept hoping that if I ignored him, he would get bored and fixate on someone else, like his fiancée.

Perhaps it takes a motivation of that kind for a man to fixate on something the way Scannon does.

From here we see the perspective to the fantastic dreams which the camera can fixate.

The more we fixate it, the more its clearness and distinctness increase.

Existences that are especially set aside to fixate and convey meanings are signs or symbols.

These apparently are accounted for by involuntary eye-movements which take place regardless of the effort made to fixate vision.

As we know, Democrats and Republicans fixate on different polls.

In slower news cycles, we fixate on the playoffs or Oscar nominees.

Word Value for fixate
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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