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ankle-deepadjective & adverbOf or at a depth or height to reach the ankles: [as adjective]: the cool ankle-deep water of the pool [as adverb]: she stood ankle-deep in the water...- Tape recorder in hand, the reporter attempted to cross the field in ankle-deep mud.
- Reportage potentially involves travelling distances to follow a story, and putting up with small privations like ankle-deep mud or freezing gales.
- In north-western Gonaives, Haiti's third largest city of about a quarter million people, residents waded through ankle-deep mud outside the mayor's office.
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