mess up vs sort

mess up

verb
  • To damage; injure. 

  • To manhandle; beat up; rough up. 

  • To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. 

  • To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on. 

  • To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin. 

  • To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior. 

  • To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly. 

  • To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray. 

sort

verb
  • To attack physically. 

  • To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree. 

  • To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. 

  • To fix (a problem) or handle (a task). 

  • To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. 

  • To geld. 

  • To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. 

  • To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. 

noun
  • An act of sorting. 

  • A type. 

  • An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence. 

  • A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style. 

  • Manner; form of being or acting. 

  • A general type. 

  • A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). 

  • A good-looking woman. 

How often have the words mess up and sort occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )