decline vs hang

decline

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

  • A weakening. 

  • Downward movement, fall. 

  • A reduction or diminution of activity. 

  • The act of declining or refusing something. 

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). 

hang

noun
  • A sharp or steep declivity or slope. 

  • A mass of hanging material. 

  • A slackening of motion. 

  • A grip, understanding. 

  • He got the hang of it after only two demonstrations. 

  • A hangout. 

  • A person that someone hangs out with. 

  • Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches. 

  • An instance of ceasing to respond to input. 

  • The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn. 

  • The way in which something hangs. 

verb
  • To decorate (something) with hanging objects. 

  • To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide. 

  • To float, as if suspended. 

  • To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.). 

  • To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly. 

  • To throw a hittable off-speed pitch. 

  • To remain persistently in one's thoughts. 

  • To be or remain suspended. 

  • To veer in one direction. 

  • To exhibit (an object) by hanging. 

  • To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall). 

  • To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous. 

  • To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. 

  • To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture. 

  • To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect. 

  • To be vulnerable to capture. 

  • To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose. 

  • To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse. 

  • To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like. 

  • (used in maledictions) To damn. 

  • To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding. 

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