fixate vs regard

fixate

verb
  • To stare fixedly at something. 

  • To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological or neurotic manner; used with on. 

  • To make something fixed and stable; to fix. 

  • To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. 

regard

verb
  • To look at; to observe. 

  • To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc. 

  • To have to do with, to concern. 

  • To face toward. 

noun
  • A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense. 

  • The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held. 

  • A steady look, a gaze. 

  • Slang for retard, a very bad stock trader. 

  • One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference. 

How often have the words fixate and regard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )