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Definition of third-degree adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

third-degree

adjective
third-degree pronunciation American
 
1 third-degree burns burns of the most serious kind, affecting tissue below the skin2 third-degree murder, assault, robbery, etc. murder, etc. of the least serious of three kinds compare first-degree, second-degree