Definition: litigate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

litigate
     v 1: engage in legal proceedings
     2: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
        "He was warned that the district attorney would process
        him" [syn: sue, process]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Litigate \Lit"i*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Litigated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Litigating.] [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.
Litigate \Lit"i*gate\, v. i.
   To carry on a suit by judicial process.