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[ nee-deep ] / ˈniˈdip /
adjectivereaching 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-deepFirst recorded in 1525–35 Words nearby knee-deepkneeboard, knee brace, knee breeches, kneecap, knee-chest position, knee-deep, knee drop, knee-elbow position, knee-high, knee-high to a grasshopper, kneehole Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for knee-deepHe 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
adjectiveso deep as to reach or cover the kneesknee-deep mud (postpositive often foll by in) - sunk or covered to the kneesknee-deep in sand
- immersed; deeply involvedknee-deep in work
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