alter vs rework

alter

verb
  • To become different. 

  • To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal). 

  • To change the form or structure of. 

  • To tailor clothes to make them fit. 

  • To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness. 

noun
  • An identity or headmate of a person with dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder). A member of a system. 

rework

verb
  • To redo, correct, or rebuild. 

noun
  • Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food. 

  • Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed. 

  • An instance of reworking. 

  • The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding. 

  • Something redone, corrected or rebuilt. 

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