Usually means: Severe, involving all skin layers.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word third-degree:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. third-degree: Merriam-Webster
  2. third-degree, third-degree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Third-degree, third-degree: Wordnik
  4. third-degree: Wiktionary
  5. third-degree: Dictionary.com
  6. third-degree: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. third-degree: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. third-degree: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. third-degree: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third-degree: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. third-degree: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. third-degree: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third-degree: Idioms

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adjective:  At the third level of some system, particularly:
adjective:  (law) The least severe level of felony, typically involving a lack of planning and/or the presence of various mitigating factors.
adjective:  (of burns) An extremely severe level of damage, typically involving major scarring and damage to subcutaneous tissue as well as the epidermis.

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