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.
All of these effects would pass after a few minutes as the character sobered up.
Nevertheless, the affair brought such a shock that people were sobered.
He changed his lifestyle completely, sobered up and started working out.
When he sobered up, he had second thoughts.
Then we sobered up and realised how much hard work it'd be, and the funniness went away.
He was sobered, however, by the pogroms of the early 1880s, and his naive cosmopolitanism was quickly dissipated.
This also applied to his resort when he would often deposit money and valuables from intoxicated patrons and return their property when the eventually sobered.
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.
