decline vs saving

decline

noun
  • A reduction or diminution of activity. 

  • A weakening. 

  • Downward movement, fall. 

  • The act of declining or refusing something. 

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

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). 

saving

noun
  • A reduction in cost or expenditure. 

  • The action of the verb to save. 

  • Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future. 

prep
  • Without disrespect to. 

  • With the exception of; except; save. 

adj
  • Preserving; rescuing. 

  • Thrifty; frugal. 

  • That saves someone from damnation; redemptive. 

  • Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful. 

  • Relating to making a saving. 

  • Making reservation or exception. 

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