knee-deep Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite coming only to the ankle or knee
    ankle-deep.
  2. adverb up to the knees
    knee-high.
    • we were standing knee-deep in the water

WordNet

Knee"-deep` adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913