Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Mediate
Mediate verb - To act as a go-between for opposing sides.
Usage example: their middle child is often asked to mediate between the oldest and the youngest
Common collocations
| conflict | avoid conflict | mediate conflict |
| situation | avoid situation | mediate situation |
| fight | avoid fight | mediate fight |
| war | avoid war | mediate war |
| Other words: situations. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Tried to mediate between the visigoths and the emperor of Rome to avoid the looting of 410, without succeeding.
Source: Useful Notes / The Pope -
The gameplay itself is the solution cooked up by the fragmented government to mediate these gargantuan corporations in order to avoid a second Techno-Industrial Civil War.
Source: Divided States of America
Cite this Source
Mediate and Avoid. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/avoid/mediate
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