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knee-deep - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'knee-deep' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Knee-deep [ a.]
- Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
- Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.

Meaning of 'knee-deep' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . knee-deep [ r]
Meaning (1):
- up to the knees
Example in sentence:
  • we were standing knee-deep in the water