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As a verb, mediate means resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. As an adjective, it means acting through a mediating agency, indirect.

Meanings of mediate

10 meanings

verb

  1. To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.

    “Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire.”

  2. To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.

  3. To divide into two equal parts.

  4. To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.

  5. To act as a spiritualistic medium.

  6. Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others

    “mediate between the old and the new”

adjective

  1. Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.

  2. Intermediate between extremes.

  3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

  4. Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

    “adolescence is an awkward in-between age”

    “in a mediate position”

    “the middle point on a line”

    Similar: in-between, middle

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for mediate →
adjective: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
verb: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
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