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knee-deep

adjective

Meaning

  1. Reaching up to the knees.
  2. Submerged to the knees.
  3. (by extension) Deeply involved in something, or preoccupied with something.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

knee-high(English)ankle-deep(English)shallow(English)overknee(English)neckdeep(English)deep(English)underknee(English)neck-deep(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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