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What does knee-deep mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word knee-deep? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Reaching up to the knees.
  2. Submerged to the knees.
  3. (figuratively, by extension) Deeply involved in something, or preoccupied with something.
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With countless roots and fallen logs hidden under the brown, knee-deep water, each step is a calculated risk.
Onlookers said the water was only knee-deep in the part of the lagoon where he fell in.
He and his family were awoken at about midnight to find themselves knee-deep in water after the storm drains overflowed.
Two days later, a second storm left residents digging out from knee-deep drifts.
Eventually he wandered down to the river, where he found Jim standing knee-deep in the water.
We are knee-deep in financial trouble and have no idea how we are going to get out of it.

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