Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Reaching as high as the knees: knee-deep floodwaters.
- adj. Submerged to the knees: was knee-deep in mud.
- adj. Deeply occupied or involved: is knee-deep in work.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rising to the knees: as, the snow lay knee-deep.
- Sunk to the knees: as, wading knee-deep in water or mire.
Wiktionary
- adj. Reaching up to the knees.
- adj. Submerged to the knees.
- adj. figuratively, by extension Deeply involved in something, or preoccupied with something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Rising to the knees; knee-high.
- adj. Sunk to the knees.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. coming only to the ankle or knee
- adv. up to the knees
Examples
“Instead, he found himself knee-deep in letters from students at Ohio State who wanted to know if I had any other secrets to share.”
“I am not from here," said the 70-year-old rice farmer, as his bloodshot eyes tried to measure whether his boxy white truck could make it through the knee-deep water.”
“A Coast Guardsman, wanting to memorialize his role in fighting the spill, asked for a tattoo of SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon character, standing knee-deep in oil.”
The Washington Post: Six months after the spill, BP's money is changing the gulf as much as its oil
“Harry's passion is theatre/arts therapy and he's knee-deep in starting up his own practice.”
“The red-coated, many-antlered buck acknowledged the lordship of the spirit of the place and dozed knee-deep in the cool, shaded pool.”
“Jeering and cursing us, the guards ran in the fire hose and played the fierce streams on us, dungeon by dungeon, hour after hour, until our bruised flesh was battered all anew by the violence with which the water smote us, until we stood knee-deep in the water which we had raved for and for which now we raved to cease.”
“And finally, at the end of an hour, with aching back, sweat-soaked shirt, and slaughtered hands, you are through and swinging along on the placid, beneficent tide between narrow banks where the cattle stand knee-deep and gaze wonderingly at you.”
“Dolly looks as though she'd forgotten all about yesterday," Chris said, as they sat their horses knee-deep in the rushing water.”
“Standing knee-deep in the icy water, the Minook men, with Montana Kid and the policeman, gripped hands and raised their voices in the terrible, "Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
“Huge squad rooms, knee-deep in the litter of things the toil of men has made — hats, caps, shirts, modern leather shoes and rude sandals of the sort worn on the north Mediterranean half a thousand years before the days of Julius”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘knee-deep’.
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Knee-ded Words
In honor (?) of John
aknee, anomalogonatous, anticnemion, bainberg, bandy-jig, besagne, bight, bott, knee, breast-knee, cartilage, cnemapophysis and 155 more...
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wordie
oddities from the prewordnikian era (aka wordie.org) ..also oddities from wordnik.
super awesome pri..., my smurfs don't w..., set phasers to bi..., monkey pod, froggy-style, kinda thing, vegan rage, knee-deep, the chuck norris ..., multi-slacking, bugdom, goomba and 38 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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