litigate
verb [intransitive, transitive] (- litigate (something)
to take a claim or disagreement to court Topics Law and justicec2(就…)提起诉讼,打官司 Oxford Collocations DictionaryLitigate is used with these nouns as the object:- case
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin litigat- ‘disputed in a lawsuit’, from the verb litigare, from lis, lit- ‘lawsuit’.