Criticize vs Intercede - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between criticize and intercede

is that criticize is to find fault (with something) while intercede is .

* criticise (UK )

(criticiz) (transitive'' or ''intransitive )

to find fault (with something)

to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults

* find fault * shoot down * trash out * fustigate * drub * excoriate * run down

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(interced)

To plead on someone else's behalf.

To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.

* Milton

I to the lords will intercede , not doubting their favourable ear.

To pass between; to intervene.

* Sir M. Hale

He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.

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