sobered
past simple and past participle ofsober
sober
verb[IorT]
uk/ˈsəʊ.bər/us/ˈsoʊ.bɚ/tobecomemorecalmandserious, or to make someone do this:
News of thetragedysobered us.
Lacking humour
- be no laughing matteridiom
- beyond
- earnestly
- earnestness
- intense
- joke
- laugh
- mirthlessly
- overearnest
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- seriously
- solemn
- solemnity
- starchy
- turgidity
- turgidly
- ultra-serious
- unamusing
- unfunny
Phrasal verb
sober(someone)up
Examplesofsobered
sobered
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Personal experiences like these havesoberedus for our role as editors.
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They will probably havesoberedup in the meantime and will not be putting in nomination papers.
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Whether it is that our temperaments are less emotional, or that five years havesoberedus, we have taken these wonderful victories extraordinarily calmly.
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In this war, if you are going ahead for three years, there are two or three things that havesoberedthis nation.
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He is feeling rather sick and hassoberedup.
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He was very soonsoberedby the responsibilities of office.
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I have nowsobereddown.
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Then they take barbiturate drugs to sober them down and, havingsobereddown, they take amphetamine drugs to give them the sense of energy and abandon which they want.
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This also applied to his resort when he would often deposit money and valuables from intoxicated patrons and return their property when the eventuallysobered.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He wassobered, however, by the pogroms of the early 1880s, and his naive cosmopolitanism was quickly dissipated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then wesoberedup and realised how much hard work it'd be, and the funniness went away.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When hesoberedup, he had second thoughts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He changed his lifestyle completely,soberedup and started working out.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nevertheless, the affair brought such a shock that people weresobered.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All of these effects would pass after a few minutes as the charactersoberedup.
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- have sb on
- have-sb-on
- have sb over a barrel
- have-sb-over-a-barrel
- have (sb's) blood on your hands
- have-sb-s-blood-on-your-hands
- have sb's guts for garters
- have-sb-s-guts-for-garters
- have sb's number
- have-sb-s-number
- have sb/sth hanging round your neck
- have-sb-sth-hanging-round-your-neck
- have sb taped
- have-sb-taped
- have sb to thank (for sth)
- have-sb-to-thank-for-sth
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- have-sb-up
- have seen better days
- have-seen-better-days
- have-sexual-relations-with
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