fabricate vs stretch the truth

fabricate

verb
  • To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely. 

  • To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce. 

  • To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build. 

  • To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl. 

stretch the truth

verb
  • To exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost. 

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