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first-degree
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
first-degree
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first-degree murder (also murder in the first degree) American English (= the most serious type of murder under U.S. law)
▪ If convicted of first-degree murder, he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
murder
▪ If convicted of first-degree murder Mr Markovic would face at least 10 years in prison.
▪ Instead of being convicted of first-degree murder, Mitchell got six years for voluntary manslaughter.
▪ She was charged with first-degree murder.
▪ So the only issue before me is actual innocence of first-degree murder.
▪ Broadus and Lee face 25 years to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
▪ How her conviction for first-degree murder affects her exposure to lesser murder charges is a matter for debate.
▪ The prosecutor announced that if she died, he would charge Leyland with first-degree murder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If convicted of first-degree murder Mr Markovic would face at least 10 years in prison.
▪ Instead of being convicted of first-degree murder, Mitchell got six years for voluntary manslaughter.
▪ She was charged with first-degree murder.
▪ So the only issue before me is actual innocence of first-degree murder.
▪ The next stop would have been prison for a conviction of first-degree burglary.
▪ These bags have been known to give people first-degree burns.
Wiktionary
first-degree

a. (context of a burn English) Limited to redness of skin, such as sunburns, which is less damaging than second-degree, third-degree and fourth-degree burns.

Usage examples of "first-degree".

On the other hand, Batu was only thirty-eight, and, though he was also a first-degree general, he commanded an army of only five thousand men.

Professor Norton was arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court, charged with first-degree murder in the bludgeon slaying of his estranged wife.

She was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Ori Fowler and Shana Timberlake.

A frantic Dysseen executed a desperate gesture of first-degree supplication underscored by first-degree anxiety.

Jenks, in an hour you are going to be arraigned for the first-degree murder of David and Melanie Brandt at the Grand Hyatt hotel on June fifth.

I am also authorized to arrest Niles Renquist on multiple counts of suspicion of murder in the first degree, and a count of first-degree assault with intent.

While she was hiding out in Alabama, she'd read a smart-ass newspaper column in the Commercial-Appeal that quoted a prosecutor as saying the first four whacks could have been emotional, but the last two indicated intent: They were looking for her on a first-degree murder warrant.