Litigate vs. Mitigate

Litigateverb

To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.

Mitigateverb

(transitive) To reduce, lessen, or decrease.

Litigateverb

(transitive) To contest in law.

Mitigateverb

(transitive) To downplay.

Litigateverb

To dispute; to fight over.

‘you can't keep litigating this same point!’;

Mitigateverb

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.

Litigateverb

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.

Mitigateverb

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

‘This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.’;

Litigateverb

To carry on a suit by judicial process.

Mitigateverb

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

‘The circumstances extenuate the crime’;

Litigateverb

engage in legal proceedings

Mitigateverb

make less severe or harsh;

‘mitigating circumstances’;

Litigateverb

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

‘He was warned that the district attorney would process him’; ‘She actioned the company for discrimination’;

Mitigateverb

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

‘drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem’;

Mitigateverb

lessen the gravity of (an offence or mistake)

‘there had been a provocation that mitigated the offence to a degree’;