cut down vs grow

cut down

verb
  • To bring down by cutting. 

  • To insult, to belittle. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, down. 

  • To reduce the amount of something. 

grow

verb
  • To appear or sprout. 

  • To become larger, to increase in magnitude. 

  • 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 cut down and grow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )