calm vs grim

calm

verb
  • To make calm. 

  • To become calm. 

adj
  • with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled. 

  • Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety. 

  • Free of noise and disturbance. 

  • Without wind or storm. 

noun
  • The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion. 

  • A period of time without wind. 

  • The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance. 

grim

verb
  • To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. 

adj
  • Rigid and unrelenting. 

  • Ghastly or sinister. 

  • Disgusting; gross. 

  • Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. 

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