sort out

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• verb transitive To clarify by reviewing mentally.
• verb transitive To fix, as a problem.
• verb transitive To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
• verb transitive To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
• verb transitive, UK, slang To attack physically.
• verb UK, slang to provide recreational drugs for.

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• verb make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
• verb punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
• verb arrange or order by classes or categories