soberize

[ soh-buh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, so·ber·ized, so·ber·iz·ing.

1. to make sober.

verb (used without object)

, so·ber·ized, so·ber·iz·ing.

1. Archaic. to become sober.

Word History and Origins

Origin of soberize¹

First recorded in 1700–10; sober + -ize

Example Sentences

It was a face that, while it filled you with some melancholy foreboding of the changes and chances which must, in the inevitable course of fate, cloud the openness of the unwrinkled brow, and soberize the fire of the daring and restless eye, instilled also within you some assurance of triumph, and some omen of success,—a vague but powerful sympathy with the adventurous and cheerful spirit which appeared literally to speak in its expression.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a face that, while it filled you with some melancholy foreboding of the changes and chances which must, in the inevitable course of fate, cloud the openness of the unwrinkled brow, and soberize the fire of the daring and restless eye, instilled also within you some assurance of triumph, and some omen of success,—a vague but powerful sympathy with the adventurous and cheerful spirit which appeared literally to speak in its expression.

From Project Gutenberg

He assures me he is now going on with very tolerable regularity; and I have given him, for this term, to soberize and methodize him a little, a private tutor ; and this tutor has won his heart by indulging him in his problem passion.

From Project Gutenberg