befoul vs muck up

befoul

verb
  • To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace). 

  • To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. 

  • To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. 

  • To defecate on, to soil with excrement. 

muck up

verb
  • To ruin unintentionally. 

  • To clown around; to have fun, often at the expense of others. 

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