fixate
verbUK /fɪkˈseɪt/ · US /ˈfɪkseɪt/
Etymology From fix + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or Latin fixus (“fixed, solid”) + -ate.
1
To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
2
To stare fixedly at something.
3
To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
- He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 202:
4
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.