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Fasten vs Fixate - What's the difference?

fasten | fixate |

As a noun fasten

is .

As a verb fixate is

to make something fixed and stable; to fix.

fasten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To attach or connect in a secure manner.
  • The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
    Fasten your seatbelts!
    Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
  • To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
  • to fasten a blow
  • * Shakespeare
  • if I can fasten but one cup upon him

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    fixate

    English

    Verb

    (fixat)
  • 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.