augment vs grow

augment

verb
  • To grow; to increase; to become greater. 

  • To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage. 

  • To increase; to make larger or supplement. 

  • To add an augment to. 

  • To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone). 

noun
  • In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb. 

  • In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix. 

  • An increase. 

grow

verb
  • To become larger, to increase in magnitude. 

  • To appear or sprout. 

  • To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere) 

  • To develop, to mature. 

  • To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants. 

  • To assume a condition or quality over time. 

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