Unsort

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1
To sort out; to resolve. nonstandard, transitive
"In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas."
2
To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
"And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly."

"In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas."

From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.