Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive)To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.

    prozessieren

    суди́тьсяsudítʹsja

  2. (transitive)To contest in law.

  3. (transitive)To dispute; to fight over.

    You can't keep litigating this same point!

More definitions
  • engage in legal proceedings
  • institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

Examples

2 sentences

  1. There's nothing worse for children than litigated custody.

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  2. We want to litigate.

    deWir wollen klagen.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to go to law:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to go to law:

Origin

First attested in 1606; borrowed from Latin lītigātus, perfect passive participle of lītig

First attested in 1606; borrowed from Latin lītigātus, perfect passive participle of lītigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līs (“a lawsuit”, oblique stem in līt-) + -igō (denominative verb-forming suffix).

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Forms

litigates, litigating, litigated, litigated
Base formlitigate · to litigate
3rd person singularlitigates
Present participlelitigating
Past simplelitigated
Past participlelitigated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylitigate
he, she, itlitigates

Past simpleLesson

all personslitigated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave litigated
he, she, ithas litigated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill litigate

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words
Relatedlitigationlitigantlitigator
Derivedlitigablelitigativelitigatorynonlitigatingoutlitigateoverlitigaterelitigateunlitigated

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lithelithiumlitigationlitreA2litterB2
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