cut out vs increase

cut out

verb
  • To arrange or prepare. 

  • To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore. 

  • To intercept. 

  • To remove, omit. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever. 

  • To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something). 

  • To oust, to replace. 

  • To separate from a herd. 

  • To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. 

  • To leave suddenly. 

adj
  • Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose. 

increase

verb
  • To make (a quantity, etc.) larger. 

  • To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. 

  • To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax. 

  • (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater. 

noun
  • The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting). 

  • For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger 

  • Offspring, progeny 

  • An amount by which a quantity is increased. 

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