grow vs widen

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. 

widen

verb
  • To become wide or wider. 

  • To make wide or wider. 

  • To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values. 

  • To broaden or extend in scope or range. 

  • To let out clothes to a larger size. 

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