Both Uses
fixate
in
Misery, by Stephen King
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- But Annie was still fixated on the other matter.†
Chpt 2 *
- This woman's feelings, obsessed though they might have been, had never evolved into Annie's paranoid fixation, but Paul understood now that the wellspring had been the same.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(fixate as in: fixated on football) overly focused
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Fixation can reference chemical bonding (especially of Nitrogen in the soil), or an arrested stage of development theorized by Freud (as in oral fixation), or (especially in medicine) the activity of fastening something firmly in position.