fixate

English

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

(transitive) To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
To stare fixedly at something.
(intransitive) To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on.
- 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 202:
  He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.
(intransitive, psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner; used with on.

to make something fixed

Armenian: ֆիքսել (hy) (fikʻsel)
Bulgarian: закрепвам (bg) (zakrepvam)
Catalan: fixar (ca)
Finnish: fikseerata, kiinnittää (fi)
German: fixieren (de), festmachen (de), befestigen (de)
Romanian: fixa (ro)
Russian: укрепля́ть (ru) impf (ukrepljátʹ), укрепи́ть (ru) pf (ukrepítʹ), закрепля́ть (ru) impf (zakrepljátʹ), закрепи́ть (ru) pf (zakrepítʹ), фикси́ровать (ru) impf (fiksírovatʹ), зафикси́ровать (ru) pf (zafiksírovatʹ)
Spanish: fijar (es)
Swedish: fixera (sv)

to stare fixedly

to attend to the exclusion of others

Bulgarian: спирам се на (spiram se na)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: fiksoitua, keskittyä (fi)
German: seine volle Aufmerksamkeit schenken, sich vollständig konzentrieren (auf)
Maori: koromaki
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: fokusera (sv)

psychology: to attach oneself to a person

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: fiksoitua, takertua (fi)
Galician: enteimar
German: sich fixieren (auf)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: заци́кливаться (ru) impf (zacíklivatʹsja), заци́клиться (ru) pf (zacíklitʹsja)

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