blacken vs muck

blacken

verb
  • To make dirty. 

  • To defame or sully. 

  • To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan. 

  • To become black. 

  • To cause to be or become black. 

muck

verb
  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

noun
  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

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