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sobering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sobering
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grim/sobering/chilling reminder (=making you feel serious and worried or frightened)
▪ They passed the armed guard, a grim reminder of the ever-present threat of terrorism.
a sobering thought (=one that makes you feel serious)
▪ We have the power to destroy the world, which is a sobering thought.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
thought
▪ It was a sobering thought, but one that was whipped out of her mind by Travis's return.
▪ No, it's not a sobering thought, it's a weird one.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sobering thought
▪ The news had a sobering effect on all of us.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Cosford I received a sobering shock, being beaten by Lincoln Asquith in the 60 metres.
▪ He does a similarly good job on energy, with some sobering figures on inefficiency and the build-up of toxic waste.
▪ However, undoubtedly the night air would have had a sobering effect, especially as the walk was some 2¾ miles long.
▪ It was a sobering thought, but one that was whipped out of her mind by Travis's return.
▪ Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence.
▪ Once again he was in the sobering presence of violent death.
▪ Zamaron bought the paintings of both Modigliani and Utrillo and let them out after a sobering night in the cells.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sobering

Sober \So"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sobered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sobering.] To make sober.

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
--Pope.

Wiktionary
sobering

  1. Causing more sober thought or concern. v

  2. (present participle of sober English)

WordNet
sobering

adj. tending to make sober or more serious; "the news had a sobering effect"

Usage examples of "sobering".

It was sobering to argue moral relativism with a child, especially one who actually understood it better than most human adults.

Yana said, sobering now so that Bunny stopped playing and settled into the chair, handing Yana the knife so she could carve into her fish.

The Eqbas are heading our way in a few years and it’ll be sobering to show the viewer what they can do.

Somehow the thought of that beautiful girl having grown up in fifteenth-century England was more sobering than anything else that had happened so far.

That was sobering proof of what they might have done to him had they chosen to.

Kirk said, sobering, remembering the warnings from within the Empire itself, "this so-called peace initiative, even if it's genuine, was sabotaged before it started.

Hiran said, sobering and then falling silent, leaving Kirk to wonder what Romulan saying could have caused that particular Earth human colloquialism to emerge from the translator.

Kirk said, sobering, remembering the warnings from within the Empire itself, "this so-called peace initiative, even if it’s genuine, was sabotaged before it started.

It was a sobering sight, for it reminded the young woman, who had spent the morning at such a pace, of the gravity of her mission and of the situation.