arid vs shriveled

arid

adj
  • Very dry. 

  • Devoid of value. 

  • Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually. 

shriveled

adj
  • Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant. 

  • Collapsed in size. 

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