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fixating

fixating is the present participle and gerund of fixate.

Meaning of fixate

Verb

fixate (third-person singular simple present fixates, present participle fixating, simple past and past participle fixated)

  1. (transitive) To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
  2. To stare fixedly at something.
  3. (intransitive) 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. (intransitive) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.

Questions about fixating

What is fixating the present participle and gerund of?
Fixating is the present participle and gerund of fixate.

Words near fixating in the dictionary

  1. fixate
  2. fixated
  3. fixates
  4. fixatif
  5. fixatifs
  6. fixating
  7. fixation
  8. fixational
  9. fixations
  10. fixative
  11. fixatives

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