Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So deep as to reach or be covered from the feet up to the waist: as, the ford was waist-deep.
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- adjective of water, etc. As deep as would reach to the
waist (of a standingperson ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb up to the waist
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Examples
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Last night residents of Carradeux were completely cut off from the outside world, as the rainwater and mud were waist-deep.
Mark Schuller: Rainy Season Exposes Precariousness of Haiti's Homeless Camps Mark Schuller 2011
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As I got older and heavier, I had to walk more carefully in case I broke through the top layer and ended up struggling through the waist-deep powder underneath.
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A rescuer said the water there was only waist-deep, but Brown said hypothermia would have quickly set in.
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Last night residents of Carradeux were completely cut off from the outside world, as the rainwater and mud were waist-deep.
Mark Schuller: Rainy Season Exposes Precariousness of Haiti's Homeless Camps Mark Schuller 2011
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She walked out until she was waist-deep and then put her head down and swam.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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In their hands were swords and spears, and they were leaping, waist-deep, into the sea-wash and wading ashore.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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And it carried understanding and command to the man at the wheel, and to Mr. Pike, waist-deep in the wash of sea below us.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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One o'clock came, and two o'clock, and the pirates were clustering on the highest shoal, waist-deep in water.
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Even as I looked a bursting sea filled the runway between the house and rail, and through the doorway in which I stood the freezing water rushed waist-deep.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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No one could get in or out unless they waded through a waist-deep lake.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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