harden vs hebetate

harden

verb
  • To unpalatalize or velarize. 

  • To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive. 

  • To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition. 

  • To strengthen. 

  • To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure). 

  • To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks. 

  • To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure). 

hebetate

verb
  • To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt. 

adj
  • obtuse; dull 

  • Having a dull or blunt and soft point 

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