sober up

English

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Verb

sober up (third-person singular simple present sobers up, present participle sobering up, simple past and past participle sobered up)

1. To become sober; to cause to become sober.

   She's in no state to go home by herself, so make sure she doesn't drink anything else, and she'll soon sober up.

   A pot of black coffee ought to sober him up.

Translations

to become sober

• Arabic: صَحَا (ar) (ṣaḥā)
• Catalan: desembriagar-se
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醉醒 (zh) (zuìxǐng), 醒酒 (zh) (xǐngjiǔ)

• Czech: vystřízlivět
• Dutch: ontnuchteren (nl)
• Esperanto: malebriiĝi
• Finnish: selvitä (fi)
• French: se dégriser (fr), se désenivrer (fr)
• German: ausnüchtern (de)
• Greek: ξεμεθώ (xemethó)

  Ancient Greek: ἐκνήφω (eknḗphō)

• Hebrew: הִתְפַּכֵּחַ (hitpakkéaḥ)
• Hungarian: kijózanodik (hu)
• Ido: desebrieskar (io)
• Ingrian: siityä
• Irish: tar as meisce
• Japanese: 酔いが覚める (よいがさめる, yoi-ga sameru)
• Polish: trzeźwieć impf, wytrzeźwieć pf
• Portuguese: desembriagar-se
• Russian: трезве́ть (ru) impf (trezvétʹ), отрезве́ть (ru) pf (otrezvétʹ)
• Spanish: desemborrachar (es), desemborracharse (es), desembriagar (es), desembriagarse (es)
• Swedish: nyktra till (sv)
• Welsh: sobri (cy)

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Translations to be checked‌: "to become sober"

• German: ernüchtern (de) (not related to alcohol but illusions)

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