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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