desolate vs grime

desolate

verb
  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere. 

  • To abandon or forsake something. 

  • To deprive of inhabitants. 

  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

adj
  • Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. 

  • Barren and lifeless. 

  • Dismal or dreary. 

  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. 

  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless. 

grime

verb
  • To begrime; to cake with dirt. 

noun
  • Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. 

  • A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. 

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