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Definition of
waist-deep adjective
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
waist-deep
adjective
,
adverb
adjective
,
adverb
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up to the waist
The water was waist-deep.
We waded waist-deep into the muddy water.
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waist-deep
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waist-deep
Nearby words
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noun
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