mend vs montage

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. 

montage

noun
  • The art or process of doing this. 

  • A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc. 

verb
  • To combine into, or depict as, a montage. 

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