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knee-deep

[ nee-deep ]

/ ˈniˈdip /

adjective

reaching the knees: knee-deep mud.

submerged or covered up to the knees: knee-deep in water.

deeply embroiled; enmeshed; involved: knee-deep in trouble.

Origin of knee-deep

First recorded in 1525–35

Words nearby knee-deep

knee presentation, knee rafter, knee reflex, knee spavin, knee-chest position, knee-deep, knee-elbow position, knee-high, knee-high to a grasshopper, knee-jerk, knee-jerk reflex

Example sentences from the Web for knee-deep

He advised him to stock up on food and rubber boots for the knee-deep mud trails.

Kevin Scott Sutay: Swallowed by the Jungle |Toby Muse |July 25, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Suddenly we are knee-deep in full length-biographies of President Eisenhower.

David's Bookclub: Eisenhower in War and Peace |David Frum |December 23, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Emanuel was knee-deep in a higher priority Monday, an ongoing teachers strike.

Joe Ricketts’s Super-PAC Attacks True Victim: Wrigley Field |James Warren |September 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

Way Out of Sarajevo |Jane Ciabattari |May 14, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

They sprang out into the knee-deep water and held fast to the boat while the foam boiled into her.

Masters of the Wheat-Lands |Harold Bindloss
This is the Luhgur (Logar) water, knee-deep in winter at the ford but spreading in flood with the spring-rains.

The Bbur-nma in English |Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
Here all was found as they had left it, save that the entrance was knee-deep in pumice-dust.

Blown to Bits |R.M. Ballantyne
The men who were endeavoring to do the heavier portion of clearing, were knee-deep in the drift.

Hester's Counterpart |Jean K. Baird
The pen, too, was knee-deep in soft muck and was as dark as a dungeon.

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's |Charles Asbury Stephens

British Dictionary definitions for knee-deep

knee-deep

adjective

so deep as to reach or cover the knees knee-deep mud

(postpositive often foll by in)

sunk or covered to the kneesknee-deep in sand
immersed; deeply involvedknee-deep in work