third-degree
Adjective
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Adjective
third-degree (not comparable)
- Third-degree. Compare first-degree, second-degree and fourth-degree.
- (legal) The least severe cases of murder, burglary or various other felonies.
- He was recently convicted of third-degree manslaughter because of his drunken-driving accident.
- (of a burn) Causing severe scarring, loss of epidermis, subcutaneous tissue and possibly of hair, which is more damaging than first-degree, second-degree and less than fourth-degree burns.
- (legal) The least severe cases of murder, burglary or various other felonies.
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