0 past simple and past participle of sober
1 to become more calm and serious, or to make someone do this:
News of the tragedy sobered us.
Personal experiences like these have sobered us for our role as editors.
They will probably have sobered up in the meantime and will not be putting in nomination papers.
Whether it is that our temperaments are less emotional, or that five years have sobered us, we have taken these wonderful victories extraordinarily calmly.
In this war, if you are going ahead for three years, there are two or three things that have sobered this nation.
He is feeling rather sick and has sobered up.
He was very soon sobered by the responsibilities of office.
I have now sobered down.
Then they take barbiturate drugs to sober them down and, having sobered down, they take amphetamine drugs to give them the sense of energy and abandon which they want.
