deteriorate vs putrefy

deteriorate

verb
  • To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair. 

  • To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. 

putrefy

verb
  • To corrupt; to make foul. 

  • To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous. 

  • To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance. 

  • To reach an advanced stage of decomposition. 

  • To become gangrenous. 

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