darken vs grime

darken

verb
  • To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. 

  • To become gloomy, darker in mood. 

  • To render gloomy, darker in mood. 

  • To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. 

  • To become dark or darker (having less light). 

  • To make dark or darker by reducing light. 

  • To make dark or darker in colour. 

  • To blind, impair the eyesight. 

  • To become dark or darker in colour. 

  • To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight. 

  • To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud). 

grime

verb
  • To begrime; to cake with dirt. 

noun
  • Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove. 

  • A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. 

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