sober up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

sober up (third-person singular simple present sobers up, present participle sobering up, simple past and past participle sobered up)

1. To become sober; to cause to become sober (usually in terms of alcohol or drugs; sometimes figuratively).

   Coordinate terms: (figurative sense) get right, get real

   She's in no state to go home by herself, so make sure she doesn't drink anything else, and she'll soon sober up.

   A pot of black coffee ought to sober him up.

   When the irrational exuberance finally ended and the central bank took away the punch bowl, the business world belatedly sobered up.

Translations

to become sober

• Arabic: صَحَا (ar) (ṣaḥā)
• Catalan: desembriagar-se
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醉醒 (zh) (zuìxǐng), 醒酒 (zh) (xǐngjiǔ)

• Czech: vystřízlivět
• Dutch: ontnuchteren (nl)
• Esperanto: malebriiĝi
• Finnish: selvitä (fi)
• French: se dégriser (fr), se désenivrer (fr)
• German: ausnüchtern (de)
• Greek: ξεμεθώ (xemethó)

  Ancient Greek: ἐκνήφω (eknḗphō)

• Hebrew: הִתְפַּכֵּחַ (hitpakkéaḥ)
• Hungarian: kijózanodik (hu)
• Ido: desebrieskar (io)
• Ingrian: siityä
• Irish: tar as meisce
• Japanese: 酔いが覚める (よいがさめる, yoi-ga sameru)
• Polish: trzeźwieć impf, wytrzeźwieć pf
• Portuguese: desembriagar-se
• Russian: трезве́ть (ru) impf (trezvétʹ), отрезве́ть (ru) pf (otrezvétʹ)
• Spanish: desemborrachar (es), desemborracharse (es), desembriagar (es), desembriagarse (es)
• Swedish: nyktra till (sv)
• Turkish: ayılmak (tr)
• Welsh: sobri (cy)

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Translations to be checked‌: "to become sober"

• German: ernüchtern (de) (not related to alcohol but illusions)

Anagrams

• subrepo, superbo