Definitions for fixates

fixates fix·ate

Spelling: [fik-seyt]
IPA: /ˈfɪk seɪt/

Fixates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in fixates (aefistx).

Definitions for fixates

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 fixates

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

Examples for fixates

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for fixates
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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