dwindle vs forgather

dwindle

verb
  • To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. 

  • To lessen; to bring low. 

  • To break up or disperse. 

  • To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. 

forgather

verb
  • To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate. 

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