sober up

verb

Definitions

  1. To become sober

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

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sober up. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA