attrit vs deflate

attrit

verb
  • To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out. 

  • To be reduced in quantity through attrition. 

  • To lose, or to kill, troops by attrition due to sustained firepower. 

  • To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition. 

noun
  • One who voluntarily or involuntarily leaves a company; a termed employee. 

deflate

verb
  • To let down or disappoint. 

  • To belch or flatulate 

  • To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices. 

  • To become deflated. 

  • To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink 

  • To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre 

  • To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm. 

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