fizzle out vs lessen

fizzle out

verb
  • To lose excitement, to become less exciting; to end, fail or die out in a weak or disappointing way. 

lessen

verb
  • To become less. 

  • To make less; to diminish; to reduce. 

conj
  • unless. 

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