decline vs tilt

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). 

tilt

noun
  • A slope or inclination. 

  • An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office. 

  • A jousting contest. (countable) 

  • A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc. 

  • Any covering overhead; especially, a tent. 

  • The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this. 

  • A thrust, as with a lance. 

  • A tilt hammer. 

  • The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc. 

verb
  • To slope or incline (something); to slant. 

  • To point or thrust (a weapon). 

  • To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently. 

  • To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses). 

  • To charge (at someone) with a lance. 

  • To forge (something) with a tilt hammer. 

  • To be at an angle. 

  • To point or thrust a weapon at. 

  • To cover with a tilt, or awning. 

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