repair vs sort out

repair

verb
  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. 

  • to pair again 

  • To transfer oneself to another place. 

  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for. 

noun
  • The act of repairing something. 

  • The result of repairing something. 

  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair. 

  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt. 

  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place. 

sort out

verb
  • To fix, as a problem. 

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

  • To attack physically. 

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