fixate

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Drivers tend to "fixate" on signals and turn when they get a green light without checking for pedestrians.

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  1. transitive verb To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
  2. transitive verb To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.
  3. transitive verb To command the attention of exclusively or repeatedly; preoccupy obsessively: "TV and newspapers were fixated on high-technology as the solution to almost everything” (Jay Walljasper).
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  • Drivers tend to "fixate" on signals and turn when they get a green light without checking for pedestrians. —  coloradoan.com - Local News
  • So when you hear "A Bedtime Story from M. Night Shyamalan," you fixate not on the story, but the storyteller -- the smug, smug storyteller -- and the almighty gall of a guy who'd presume to tuck you in and tell you a story that he's so sure you're going to love. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Goldman has a terrible reputation among the Valley's elite which lead some to fixate on his height. —  Gawker: Valleywag
  • If you have ever watched a child living with autism you'd know that they tend to fixate on specific things. —  Rahul Sood's Weblog
  • People like you will fixate on the number and start training to best it and freak out if you lose a degree or two, he said.
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  1. from Middle Latin fixatus, past participle of fixare, fix: see fix, v.
 

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/ˈfɪkseɪt/
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