forge vs regress

forge

verb
  • To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty. 

  • To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate. 

  • To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. 

  • To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy. 

  • To form or create with concerted effort. 

  • To shape a metal by heating and hammering. 

noun
  • A Web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software. 

  • A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape. 

  • A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them. 

  • The act of beating or working iron or steel. 

regress

verb
  • To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. 

  • To move from east to west. 

  • To perform a regression on an explanatory variable. 

  • To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past. 

noun
  • The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. 

  • In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property. 

  • The power or liberty of passing back. 

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