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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 meaningsverb
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
“Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire.”
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
To act as a spiritualistic medium.
Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
“mediate between the old and the new”
adjective
Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
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).