Definitions for knee-deep

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IPA: /ˈniˈdip/

Knee-Deep is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in knee-deep (-deeeeknp).

Definitions for knee-deep

adjective

  1. reaching the knees:
  2. submerged or covered up to the knees:
  3. deeply embroiled; enmeshed; involved:

Origin of knee-deep

First recorded in 1525-35

Examples for knee-deep

At some points the water was knee-deep, at others it was chin-deep.

It had also crept into the heading, and 280 the men who worked in it were knee-deep in water.

Emanuel was knee-deep in a higher priority Monday, an ongoing teachers strike.

Suddenly we are knee-deep in full length-biographies of President Eisenhower.

But the cutter slipped by and left him knee-deep, looking ruefully after them.

There they remained, knee-deep in the water, and huddled together.

My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

Now he was knee-deep in the reeds of the north shore; now he was climbing the bank.

He advised him to stock up on food and rubber boots for the knee-deep mud trails.

Even where it was not more than knee-deep, its power was manifest.

Word Value for knee-deep
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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