sober (sb) up
— phrasal verb with sober uk/ˈsəʊ.bər/us/ˈsoʊ.bɚ/verb [ I or T ]
to become less drunk, or to make someone become less drunk:
I went for a walk to try to sober up.
Have some black coffee - that should sober you up!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- alcoholism
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriate
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- sloshed
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- sozzled
- whacked
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