graduated vs increasing

graduated

adj
  • Increasing in rate with the taxable base. 

  • Having a university degree; having completed training. 

  • Arranged by grade, level, degree. 

  • Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle. 

  • Marked with graduations. 

increasing

adj
  • on the increase. 

noun
  • An increase. 

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