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[ verb ] become sober after excessive alcohol consumption
Synonyms Examples "Keep him in bed until he sobers up" Used in print (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)By the time Felix turned_up it was early afternoon , which , one would think , would be late enough so that by then , except for small children and a_few hardy souls who had not_yet sobered_up , it could have been expected that people would no_longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night 's noisemakers and paper hats . (Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)Bake was waiting to report that Lou_DuVol had been sobered_up to the point where he could function efficiently . |
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