sober
/ˈsoʊ.bɚ/ verb C2- To make or become sober. · His expression sobered.
- To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. · It took him hours to sober up.
- To moderate one's feelings; to accept a disappointing reality after losing one's ability to believe in a fantastic goal. · Losing his job was a sobering experience.
He/she/it sobers · Past sobered · Past participle sobered · -ing form sobering
Verb forms
- Base form
- sober
- He/she/it
- sobers
- Past
- sobered
- Past participle
- sobered
- -ing form
- sobering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also.
The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry.
The very night of his arrival he became very much the worse for drink, and, indeed, after twelve o’clock in the day he could hardly ever be said to be sober.
This last statement appeared to me to be so startling, that I could hardly believe that he was in his sober senses.
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