decline vs poison

decline

verb
  • To become weaker or worse. 

  • 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 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. 

poison

verb
  • To cause to become much worse. 

  • To place false information into (a cache) as part of an exploit. 

  • To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions. 

  • To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody). 

  • To pollute; to cause to become poisonous. 

  • To inhibit the catalytic activity of. 

noun
  • A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. 

  • Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity. 

  • Something that harms a person or thing. 

  • An intoxicating drink; a liquor. (note: this sense is chiefly encountered in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison ?") 

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