intervene in vs mess with

intervene in

mess with

verb
  • To interfere with. 

  • To diss; to put down. 

  • To admire, enjoy, or approve of. 

  • To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner. 

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