litigate

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: lit=i=gate

CIDE DICTIONARY

litigate, v. t. [See Litigation.].

 To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.  [1913 Webster]

litigate, v. i. 

 To carry on a suit by judicial process.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

litigate, v.
1 intr. go to law; be a party to a lawsuit.
2 tr. contest (a point) in a lawsuit.

Derivative

litigable adj. litigation n. litigator n.

Etymology

L litigare litigat- f. lis litis lawsuit

THESAURUS

litigate

bring action against, bring into court, bring suit, bring to justice, bring to trial, drag into court, go into litigation, go to law, implead, law, prosecute, prosecute at law, put in suit, put on trial, seek in law, seek justice, sue, take to court

ROGET THESAURUS

litigate

Discord

VB be discordant, disagree, come amiss, clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another, live like cat and dog, differ, dissent, have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with, fall out, quarrel, dispute, litigate, controvert, squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag, spar, have words, with, fall foul of, split, break with, break squares with, part company with, declare war, try conclusions, join issue, put in issue, pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel on, sow dissension, stir up dissension, embroil, entangle, disunite, widen the breach, set at odds, set together by the ears, set against, pit against, get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl, kick up a row, kick up a dust, turn the house out of window, be discordant, jar.