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Thesaurus: knee-deep

Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.

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  1. a. Rising to the knees; knee-high; as, water or snow knee-deep.
  2. a. Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water.
  3. adj. coming only to the ankle or knee
  4. adv. up to the knees
  5. 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.