nix vs sort out

nix

verb
  • To destroy or eradicate. 

  • To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. 

intj
  • No! Not at all! 

noun
  • Nothing. 

  • A treacherous water-spirit; a nixie. 

sort out

verb
  • To attack physically. 

  • To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem. 

  • To fix, as a problem. 

  • To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from. 

  • To clarify by reviewing mentally. 

  • To arrange. 

  • To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy. 

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