fourth degree
Relentless police questioning
Fourth degree indicates the fourth level in a graded classification, usually legal or medical.
In criminal law, fourth-degree offenses are typically the least serious felonies or most serious misdemeanors: fourth-degree assault, fourth-degree burglary.
In medicine, a fourth-degree burn destroys all skin layers plus underlying tissue.
The phrase the fourth degree humorously intensifies the third degree, meaning aggressive questioning.
- burnDamage by heat
- burn victimPerson injured by heat
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- police interrogationOfficial suspect questioning
- felonySerious criminal offense
severe · crime · polynomial · assault · questioning · torture · grilling · exponent · algebra · murder · mathematics · math class · equation · connection · separation · Kevin Bacon · kinship · family tree
- scale degreestonic, dominant, mediant, subdominant, leading tone
- burnsburn, thermal burn, sunburn, scald, chemical burn
fourth degreefirst degree
Initial academic credential
first-degree burn · first degree burn · superficial burn · minor burn · sunburn
fourth degreefirst degree
Initial academic credential
capital offense · aggravated · highest degree · capital crime
fourth degreefirst degree murder
Intentional, planned unlawful killing
first degree · premeditated murder · capital murder · murder one · voluntary manslaughter
fourth, four, fourths, fourteen, fourteenth, forty, fortieth, fourfold, degree