decrease vs grow

decrease

verb
  • Of a quantity, to become smaller. 

  • To make (a quantity) smaller. 

noun
  • A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See Decrease (knitting). 

  • An amount by which a quantity is decreased. 

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