garbage vs rot

garbage

noun
  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

  • An easy shot. 

  • Food waste material of any kind. 

  • A place or receptacle for waste material. 

  • Something or someone worthless. 

  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. 

adj
  • bad, crap, shitty 

rot

noun
  • Verbal nonsense. 

  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. 

  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. 

  • Decaying matter. 

verb
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret. 

  • To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place). 

  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. 

  • To decline in function or utility. 

  • To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt. 

  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes. 

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