clean up vs mess up

clean up

verb
  • To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. 

  • To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house. 

  • To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner. 

  • To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such. 

mess up

verb
  • To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. 

  • To damage; injure. 

  • To manhandle; beat up; rough up. 

  • To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on. 

  • To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin. 

  • To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior. 

  • To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly. 

  • To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray. 

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