Knee-deep a.
1. Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
Grass knee-deep within a month. --Milton.
2. Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.
Where knee-deep the trees were standing. --Longfellow.
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knee-deep
adj : coming only to the ankle or knee [syn: ankle-deep]
adv : up to the knees; "we were standing knee-deep in the water"
[syn: knee-high]