decline vs heave

decline

verb
  • To move downwards, to fall, to drop. 

  • 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 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. 

heave

verb
  • To rise and fall. 

  • To throw, cast. 

  • To displace (a vein, stratum). 

  • To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). 

  • To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. 

  • To utter with effort. 

  • To pull up with a rope or cable. 

  • To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. 

  • To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation. 

  • To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. 

noun
  • A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. 

  • An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. 

  • An effort to vomit; retching. 

  • Broken wind in horses. 

  • The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch. 

  • An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. 

  • A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory 

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