fixate
verb (used without object)
to obsessively concentrate one's attention (usually followed byon ).
had fixated
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past perfectof fixate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It was a brooch that she had fixated on and she saved 65 cents to make the purchase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
But he understood that I had fixated on clothes as the symbol of why I didn’t, and couldn’t, belong.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
