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Litigate vs. Mitigate — What's the Difference?

Litigate vs. Mitigate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Litigate and Mitigate

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Litigate

To prosecute or defend (a lawsuit or legal action); pursue (a legal case).

Mitigate

Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful
Drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem

Litigate

To bring a lawsuit or defend against a lawsuit in court.

Mitigate

To make less severe or intense; moderate or alleviate.

Litigate

To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.
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Mitigate

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

Litigate

(transitive) To contest in law.

Mitigate

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

Litigate

To dispute; to fight over.
You can't keep litigating this same point!

Mitigate

(transitive) To downplay.

Litigate

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.

Mitigate

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.

Litigate

To carry on a suit by judicial process.

Mitigate

To make mild and accessible; to mollify; - applied to persons.
This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.

Litigate

Engage in legal proceedings

Mitigate

Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;
The circumstances extenuate the crime

Litigate

Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
He was warned that the district attorney would process him
She actioned the company for discrimination

Mitigate

Make less severe or harsh;
Mitigating circumstances

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