Sober Up

Definition: Sober Up

Sober Up

Verb

1. Become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up".

2. Become more realistic; "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Sober Up

If we sober up, we'll never go through with this. (Flashback; writing credit: David Loughery)

You need to sober up. (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson)

You pray to statues when you sober up for fun (Broadway; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏فطن (acute, astute, clever, discern, discerning, keen, sagacious, shrewd, smart), ‏صحا من سكره, ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, take, twig, understand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поизтрезнявам. (various references)

Finnish

selvitä (become clear, brighten, clear up, escape, get off, recover). (various references)

French

se dégriser, désenivrer (sober). (various references)

German

sich beruhigen (abate, be eased, become calm, calm down, die down, ease off, lessen, quieten down, relax, settle down, simmer down, smooth down, steady, subside, to quiet down), ruhiger werden (quiet, quieten, quieten down, sober down), nüchtern werden, nüchtern machen (sober), ernüchtern (bring down to earth, chasten, sober, to sober). (various references)

Greek 

ξεμεθώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תפכח (become sober). (various references)

Hungarian

lehiggad (to compose oneself, to sober, to sober down, to sober up), kijózanodik (get sober, to come down from the clouds, to sober, to sober down, to sober up), kijózanít (disenchant, disillusion, sober, to disenchant, to put right, to set right, to sober, to sober down, to sober up, undeceive). (various references)

Italian

smaltire la sbornia (sober). (various references)

Pig Latin

obersay upay

Russian 

протрезветь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otrezniti se. (various references)

Spanish

serenarse (play it cool, pull oneself together, settle), desembriagarse. (various references)

Swedish

nyktra till, göra nykter. (various references)

Thai

เลิก�"ื่ม. (various references)

Turkish

ciddileşmek (become serious, sober down, tighten, tighten up), ayıltmak (bring round, bring smb. to his senses, bring through, resuscitate, sober), ayılmak (come round, come to, realize the facts, recover, revive, sober down), aklını başına getirmek (bring smb. to his senses, disenchant, sober, undeceive). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bourse, poseur, probes, rebops, superb, upbore, uprose.

-2 letters: bores, bouse, brose, burps, burse, euros, pores, poser, pours, probe, prose, pubes, purse, rebop, rebus, repos, robes, ropes, roues, roups, rouse, rubes, sober, spore, sprue, suber, super.

-3 letters: bops, bore, bros, burp, burs, epos, eros, euro, obes, opes, opus, orbs, ores, ours, peso, pore, pose.

+2 letters: subperiod, superbomb.

+3 letters: euphorbias, ibuprofens, pourboires, purebloods, subperiods, subproblem, subprocess, subproject, subreption, superblock, superboard, superbombs, superjumbo.

+4 letters: copublisher, paperbounds, postpuberty, protrusible, subproblems, subprojects, subreptions, superabound, superblocks, superboards, superbomber, supportable.

+5 letters: ailurophobes, copublishers, obstreperous, prosecutable, subprocesses, superabounds, superbombers, superposable.

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