first-degree
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
first-degree
▶adjective
- 1 Medicine denoting burns that affect only the surface of the skin and cause reddening.
- 2 Law, chiefly N. Amer. denoting the most serious category of a crime, especially murder.
– phrases
first-degree relative a person's parent, sibling, or child.
first-degree relative a person's parent, sibling, or child.
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