build up vs demean

build up

verb
  • To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages. 

  • To close up by building. 

  • To strengthen. 

  • In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣) 

  • To erect; to construct. 

demean

noun
  • resources; means. 

  • demesne. 

verb
  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

  • To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

  • To mortify. 

  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

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