fearful vs shrinking

fearful

adj
  • Tending to fear; timid. 

  • Frightening; causing fear. 

adv
  • Extremely; fearfully. 

shrinking

adj
  • Shy and retiring. 

noun
  • The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away. 

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