bungle vs mend

bungle

noun
  • A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder. 

verb
  • To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble. 

  • To act or work incompetently; to fumble. 

mend

noun
  • The act of repairing or recovering. 

  • A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending. 

verb
  • To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved. 

  • To repair (something that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or otherwise damaged) 

  • To put in a better state; to set right; to reform; 

  • To quicken 

  • To help, to advance, to further; to add to. 

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