Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word KNEE-DEEP

Definitions of KNEE-DEEP

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

Examples of Using KNEE-DEEP in a Sentence

• Moving up the Sayre Highway and driving down the Kibawe-Talomo trail, fighting in knee-deep mud and through torrential rains, the 31st forced the enemy to withdraw into the interior and blocked off other Japanese in the Davao area.
• Lightburn was forced to advance through a knee-deep swamp, and were stopped short of the Confederate breastworks on the southern end of Pigeon Hill by enfilading fire.
• At the start of 1993, id put out a press release by Hall, touting Buddy's story about fighting off demons while "knee-deep in the dead", trying to eliminate the demons and find out what caused them to appear.
• His shot drifted right, ricocheted backwards off the railings of the grandstands by the side of the green, landed on top of the stone wall of the Barry Burn and then bounced fifty yards backwards into knee-deep rough.
• During rainy days, these roads and trails easily turned into knee-deep mud fit only for wallowing carabaos.
• Strachan was later accused of being a "red-handed murderer who had tramped knee-deep in blood through New Guinea".
• There was knee-deep flooding in the shantytown of Cité Soleil, and in Jacmel, the rains increased levels along three rivers.
• The main continent in the setting is Highpoint, an unusually altitudinous continent broken into several levels of elevation, with the lowest area of it being a desert that is knee-deep in seawater for half of Highpoint's 250-odd day calendar.
• The knee-deep Putty Creek, or the Tupa, rises in north at the foot of Mt Kindarun, and runs the length of the valley before joining with the Wollemi Creek which then feeds into the Colo River.
• Outside the United States, Herbert Whittaker of The Gazette Montreal said: "The movie-goer who gazes stoney-eyed at the usual type of screen thriller should be able to achieve genuine goose-pimples as this one unravels", noting that the film does not set itself in a "cardboard grave yard, knee-deep in that animated whipped cream that Hollywood technicals like to imagine resembles fog" and that the film "will have you clutching the arms of your theatre-seat".
• Sunday saw the mud worsen with festival-goers finding the long trek between the Main Stage and Stage 2/NME even more difficult as they trudged through knee-deep layers of mud and dirty water.
• Swankerton hardly needs corrupting, being a cesspool of vice and depravity; the current leadership is knee-deep in drugs, gambling, and prostitution (with the backing by a major New Orleans mob boss, Giuseppe "Joe Lucky" Lucarelli), and the "Reform" candidates are if anything worse.
• Laurent inside Quinta del Sordo; though the lower legs are obscured, Charles Yriarte, who viewed the paintings at the Quinta, interpreted that the duelists fought on a grass field, not knee-deep in mud.
• In the early 1850s Joseph Bates and Hiram Edson traveled along the northern shore of Lake Ontario trudging through knee-deep snow seeking out the Millerites.
• More than 20 houses in Ringlet town, Ringlet new village, Kampung Ulu Merah Ringlet and Bertam Valley were submerged in knee-deep flood waters.

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