dwindle vs grow

dwindle

verb
  • To break up or disperse. 

  • To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. 

  • To lessen; to bring low. 

  • To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. 

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