Mediate vs. Mitigate — What's the Difference?

To resolve or settle (differences) by working with all the conflicting parties

Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful

To bring about (a settlement, for example) by working with all the conflicting parties.

To make less severe or intense; moderate or alleviate.

To effect or convey as an intermediate agent or mechanism

To make alterations to (land) to make it less polluted or more hospitable to wildlife.

(Physics) To convey (a force) between subatomic particles.

(transitive) To reduce, lessen, or decrease; to make less severe or easier to bear.

To work with two or more disputants in order to bring about an agreement, settlement, or compromise.

(transitive) To downplay.

To settle or reconcile differences

To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.

To have a relation to two differing persons, groups, or things

To make mild and accessible; to mollify; - applied to persons.

Acting through, involving, or dependent on an intervening agency.

Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;

Being in a middle position.

Make less severe or harsh;

(transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.

(intransitive) 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.

Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.

Intermediate between extremes.

Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.

Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.

Gained or effected by a medium or condition.

To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.

To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.

To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.

To divide into two equal parts.

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;

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

Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;

Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series;