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SOBER

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sober I. adjectiv

1. sobru, cumplitat, moderat, asezat, echilibrat; calm, liniştit.

2. treaz, care nu e sub influenţa alcoolului;

(as) sober as a judge complet treaz.

3. (despre culori) neţipător neexagerat.

◊ to be sober a) a fi sobru etc.; b) a nu fi beat / băut; c) a nu fi băut nimic; a nu fi mâncat nimic, a fi cu stomacul gol.

sober II. verb A. tranzitiv

to sober down a) a calma, a potoli, a modera, a atenua; b) (şi fig.) a dezbăta, a dezmetici, a trezi.

sober II. verb B. intranzitiv

to sober down a) a se calma, a se modera; b) (şi fig.) a se dezbăta; a se trezi, a se dezmetici.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"In debt, Amy? What do you mean?" And Meg looked sober.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But what he read seemed to sober him.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

'Walawa,' thought I, 'mad master, sober man'—so away forward to the archers.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This struck them sober, all three, an’ Fighting Yussef asked what time they were to start.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Adele had been in a state of ecstasy all day, after hearing she was to be presented to the ladies in the evening; and it was not till Sophie commenced the operation of dressing her that she sobered down.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

At last, however, the door was closed upon the three females, and they set off at the sober pace in which the handsome, highly fed four horses of a gentleman usually perform a journey of thirty miles: such was the distance of Northanger from Bath, to be now divided into two equal stages.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

But I'll tell you I was sober; I was on'y dog tired; and if I'd awoke a second sooner, I'd 'a caught you at the act, I would. He wasn't dead when I got round to him, not he.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

So thought Fanny, in good truth and sober sadness, as she sat musing over that too great indulgence and luxury of a fire upstairs: wondering at the past and present; wondering at what was yet to come, and in a nervous agitation which made nothing clear to her but the persuasion of her being never under any circumstances able to love Mr. Crawford, and the felicity of having a fire to sit over and think of it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

A few minutes more, and Emma hoped to see one troublesome companion deposited in his own house, to get sober and cool, and the other recover his temper and happiness when this visit of hardship were over.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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