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fourth-degree

fourth-degree

English

Adjective

fourth-degree (not comparable)

  1. Fourth-degree. Compare first-degree, second-degree and third-degree.
    1. (of a burn) Damaging muscle, tendon, ligament tissue, thus resulting in catastrophic damage, more severe than all other degrees: first-degree, second-degree and third-degree.

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