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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sober.

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Examples

  • Not only does it ebb the next day hangover, it also sobers you up a notch or two (still not enough to drive, dummy).

    Eating Past Last Call In Downtown LA blogdowntown.com 2010

  • Not only does it ebb the next day hangover, it also sobers you up a notch or two (still not enough to drive, dummy).

    Eating Past Last Call In Downtown LA blogdowntown.com 2010

  • It is rather like those old Star Trek episodes where Kirk or Spock meet someone perfect and then she's eaten by a space weevil or Spock sobers up or something.

    Doctor Who Easter Special...Reaction Post! SPOILERS! rabid1st 2009

  • Yelling to be heard above the wind, he points out a hospital for elderly musicians, a pizzeria whose owner once shot some sobers and became a popular vigilante, the Brazilian restaurant where Ronaldino and all the other AC Milan footballers hang out, and a prison where the top floor prisoners can peer out the windows into the roundabout below.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • Yelling to be heard above the wind, he points out a hospital for elderly musicians, a pizzeria whose owner once shot some sobers and became a popular vigilante, the Brazilian restaurant where Ronaldino and all the other AC Milan footballers hang out, and a prison where the top floor prisoners can peer out the windows into the roundabout below.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • It is rather like those old Star Trek episodes where Kirk or Spock meet someone perfect and then she's eaten by a space weevil or Spock sobers up or something.

    Doctor Who Easter Special...Reaction Post! SPOILERS! rabid1st 2009

  • “A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”

    Think Progress » Purported doctor on Texas A&M message board claims he ‘laid off my first Obama voting employee.’ (Updated) 2010

  • Nothing sobers you up quicker than runnin the yellows at 110. 14.

    Pure Genius: A Keyhole For Drunk People - Geekologie 2010

  • In short order, Noel sobers up, enrolls in school and persuades a crotchety social worker named Moira—who "knew how to run everyone else's lives but not her own"—not to send Frankie to a foster home.

    The Reigning Queen of Victim Lit Sam Sacks 2011

  • Yelling to be heard above the wind, he points out a hospital for elderly musicians, a pizzeria whose owner once shot some sobers and became a popular vigilante, the Brazilian restaurant where Ronaldino and all the other AC Milan footballers hang out, and a prison where the top floor prisoners can peer out the windows into the roundabout below.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

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