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fix attention

VERB

concentrate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

apply establish fixate focus intensify put settle

STRONG

attend center contemplate examine hammer meditate muse need peruse ponder rivet ruminate scrutinize set study sweat weigh

WEAK

be engrossed in bring to bear brood over consider closely crack one's brains direct attention focus attention get on the beam give attention hammer away at head trip knuckle down occupy thoughts pour it on put mind to rack one's brains think hard

Antonyms

STRONGEST

confuse unsettle

STRONG

disregard forget ignore neglect

WEAK

disperse scatter

Example Sentences

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But he could not fix attention on it.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

A twinge of pain at right infraorbital foramen, gradually increases; cannot fix attention on what I am reading.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

It was thought better to fix attention on the purely logical value of the argument presented.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman

Here was a subject fitted to fix attention upon any writer, and on the other hand, a writer brilliantly qualified to fix attention upon any subject.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

This may cause us, however, to fix attention, not upon the civil war, but upon the revolution of 1688.

From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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