cheese vs decline

cheese

verb
  • To stop; to refrain from. 

  • To smile excessively, as for a camera. 

  • To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.) 

  • To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games). 

  • To prepare curds for making cheese. 

  • To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. 

  • To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". 

noun
  • Money. 

  • A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. 

  • That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy. 

  • Any particular variety of cheese. 

  • In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles. 

  • Smegma. 

  • A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture. 

  • A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk. 

  • A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese. 

  • Wealth, fame, excellence, importance. 

  • Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. 

  • A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted. 

  • A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly) 

  • A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese 

  • The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis). 

  • A fastball. 

intj
  • Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. 

decline

verb
  • To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain. 

  • To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun. 

  • To cause to decrease or diminish. 

  • To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. 

  • To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw. 

  • To move downwards, to fall, to drop. 

  • To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like. 

  • To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play. 

  • To become weaker or worse. 

  • To recite all the different declined forms of (a word). 

noun
  • A weakening. 

  • Downward movement, fall. 

  • A reduction or diminution of activity. 

  • The act of declining or refusing something. 

  • A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. 

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