endow vs reduce

endow

verb
  • Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something). 

  • To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. 

  • Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. 

  • To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”). 

reduce

verb
  • To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".) 

  • To annul by legal means. 

  • To lose weight. 

  • To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. 

  • To bring to an inferior state or condition. 

  • To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value. 

  • To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. 

  • To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form. 

  • To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen. 

  • To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture. 

  • To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. 

  • To strike off the payroll. 

  • To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off. 

  • To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter. 

  • To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm. 

  • To reform a line or column from (a square). 

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