escalate vs inflate

escalate

verb
  • To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. 

  • To climb. 

  • In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority 

inflate

verb
  • To swell; to puff up. 

  • To decompress (data) that was previously deflated. 

  • To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally 

  • To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas). 

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