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a. 1 (context legal English) The least severe cases of murder, burglary or various other felony. 2 (context of a burn English) 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.
Usage examples of "third-degree".
Over the years he added some Thai boxing to his regimen, but for the most part he focused on Gracie Jujitsu, eventually earning a third-degree black belt.
I presumed the tar had been warmed only to the point of spreadability, in that it was lumpy and Lamont was not only alive but also not screaming about second- and third-degree burns.
The courthouse razed to the ground, the judge, the superlawyers, many others hospitalized for third-degree burns.
Dale Crowe Junior had been convicted of a third-degree five-year felony, Battery of a Police Officer, and was looking at additional time on the fugitive warrant.
My son Tom came home last night with a third-degree burn on his shoulder.
I decided there was no way to drink it except quickly, and the third-degree burn I received on the back of my throat was soon replaced by a pleasant glow.
But it still hurt like a third-degree burn over every square centimeter of naked flesh, eyeballs fried in their sockets, one dying inhalation of molten lead, enema of same: complete feedback overload.
I knew from my own third-degree burn, which had been roughly the same size, but which I'd received from a motorcycle exhaust pipe when I'd been around his own age.
He was holding her hand, stroking it as gently as a man removing ashes from a third-degree burn.
He'd have been saved if he'd had his jumper on but with it off, the top half of him also goes up in flames and poor bastard had ninety per cent third-degree burns and wouldn't have been able to walk ten steps before he was a goner.
The problem was, he'd already suffered third-degree burns in the relationship wars, and he didn't have any skin to spare in another losing round.
She couldn't get within three feet of the man without risking third-degree burns.
Around the third-degree burns were blisters the size of silver dollars and heavy with pus.
If he had gone through one of the military biomod programs, it meant that even if Sorensen threw a pot of boiling water over him, the bodyguard would still be capable of snapping several necks, pain and third-degree burns notwithstanding.
The infant was taken to a hospital and treated for third-degree burns on her left hand, right foot, and over her abdomen.