Fasten vs Fixate - What's the difference?
fasten | fixate |
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
To stare fixedly at something.
To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
(psychology) To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner.
As a noun fasten
is .As a verb fixate is
to make something fixed and stable; to fix.fasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him