knee-deep

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Definitions

adjective

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

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Synonyms

knee-high ankle-deep shallow overknee neckdeep deep underknee neck-deep thigh-high neck deep deepish semideep deep-lying arm's length midcalf deep-seated

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