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verb (inf=to sort out, sorts out, sorting out, sorted out)
  1. (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later.
  1. (transitive) To fix, as a problem.
''The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?
  1. (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
Could you your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?
  1. (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
We need to the problems we can solve from the ones we can't.
They've already sorted out the students in group A, so we just need to worry about groups B and C.
  1. (context, transitive, UK, slang) To attack physically.
''If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out.
Translations: 
  • Italian: risolvere
    (trans-mid)

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