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Meaning of waist-high | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

As high as would reach to the waist (of a standing person).

not-comparable

Examples

“Near-synonym: waist-deep”
“Though this arrangement was a vast improvement on what had gone before, the engine crew were still very conscious of a side wind round their legs, and it was not until 1892 that R. J. Billinton rectified this, when he built his "D3" Class 0-4-4 bogie tank engines Nos. 363-398, and provided them with waist-high close-fitting cab doors.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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