Definition of "fixates" [fixates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fixate. (verb)

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• "Noting, correctly, that few scholars actually finish The Historical Novel, Maxwell points out that it "fixates" 66 on the historical novel as modeled by Scott, and treats all later attempts at the form as sad deviants from the original; when Lukacs shifts his attention from Scott to Balzac, the historical novel qua form simply vanishes into contemporary realism."
• "Jeffrey Ford: The only thing I remember is that since the center of the story is this teenage girl, living in New Jersey, who fixates on the figure of Ganesha, perhaps having read about him in a book or on-line, I thought that, because of growing up where she did and when (now), she would envision the God, for better or worse, somewhat in the style of Disney."
• "And as Jed Lewison notes, the conversation about how to balance the budget too often fixates on cuts, when there's another option in the mix: Ending the Bush tax cuts for the rich."