fixate

1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
2. To focus one's eyes or attention on: fixate a faint object.
3. 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).
4. Psychology.
   1. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in an immature or neurotic fashion.
   2. In classical psychoanalysis, to cause (the libido) to be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

1. To focus the eyes or attention.
2. Psychology.
   1. To become attached to a person or thing in an immature or pathological way; form a fixation.
   2. To be arrested at an early stage of psychosexual development.

To close. The term often refers to closing a track-at-once session on a CD-R disc. See disc fixation.

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1. To make fixed, stable, or stationary.
2. To focus one's eyes or attention on.
3. To develop a fixation; become attached to in an immature or neurotic way.

The verb has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way

Meaning #2: pay attention to exclusively and obsessively

Meaning #3: make fixed, stable or stationary
  Synonym: fix

Meaning #4: become fixed (on)
  Synonym: settle on