fixate

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fixate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fixate
      v 1: attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way;
           "He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40"
      2: pay attention to exclusively and obsessively; "The media are
         fixating on Princess Diana's death"
      3: make fixed, stable or stationary; "let's fix the picture to
         the frame" [syn: fixate, fix]
      4: become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the
         horizon" [syn: fixate, settle on]