decrepitate vs fry

decrepitate

verb
  • To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire. 

  • Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles. 

fry

verb
  • To cook (something) in hot fat. 

  • To suffer because of too much heat. 

  • To be executed by the electric chair. 

  • To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current. 

  • To cook in hot fat. 

noun
  • Young fish; fishlings. 

  • The liver of a lamb. 

  • A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc. 

  • Offspring; progeny; children; brood. 

  • A lamb or calf testicle. 

  • A fried piece of cut potato. 

  • The spawn of frogs. 

  • A kind of sieve. 

  • A drain. 

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