third-degree
- Adjective. (legal) The least severe cases of murder, burglary or various other felonies.
- Adjective. (context, 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.
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