diminish vs scale back

diminish

verb
  • To make smaller. 

  • To taper. 

  • To disappear gradually. 

  • To take away; to subtract. 

  • To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming). 

  • To become less or smaller. 

scale back

verb
  • To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something. 

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