give ground vs secede

give ground

verb
  • To retreat; to yield an advantage. 

secede

verb
  • To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. 

  • To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. 

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