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What (who) is knee-deep - definition
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
Knee-deep
·adj Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.
II. Knee-deep ·adj Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
knee-deep
¦ adjective
1. immersed up to the knees.
deeply involved in something.
2. so deep as to reach the knees.
knee-deep
1.
Something that is knee-deep is as high as your knees.
The water was only knee-deep.
ADJ
2.
If a person or a place is knee-deep in something such as water, the level of the water comes up to a person's knees.
They spent much of their time knee-deep in mud...
ADJ: v-link ADJ in n, ADJ after v
Examples of use of knee-deep
1. "It was about knee–deep in the house," Epperly said.
2. "We‘re knee–deep in counterinsurgency here," said Marine Capt.
3. Oil lying in thick films on top of knee–deep water in city streets.
4. Their homes had knee–deep water on the ground floor, he said.
5. We ran through water that was knee–deep on a grown–up.