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knee-deep
[ nee-deep ]
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.
knee-deep
adjective
- so deep as to reach or cover the knees
knee-deep mud
- postpositiveoften foll byin
- sunk or covered to the knees
knee-deep in sand
- immersed; deeply involved
knee-deep in work
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Word History and Origins
Origin of knee-deep1
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Example Sentences
Knee deep in mud, sweat mixing with rain, they forced the Land Rover through the jungle.
They live in humiliating conditions—knee-deep in mud when it rains, unable to go to school or work.
On a good night workers on the staff are knee deep in cash, collecting as much as $70,000 in small bills.
Crushed in the 2012 ground and data game, the GOP has learned its lesson—and is knee deep in Clinton oppo-research.
He advised him to stock up on food and rubber boots for the knee-deep mud trails.
The Colonel is very well, and seems to enjoy plodding knee-deep through the mud in the trenches.
And these sons, the singers, stretched out the fences in their racings; the cows had to walk knee-deep.
In crossing these we went knee-deep, and once waist-deep, into it.
The river Wagwater, which is commonly about knee deep, ran the next morning thirty feet high.
Astern of us, knee-deep in foam, stood the slim column of the Bishop lighthouse, a dark pencil mark on the cloudless sky.
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