shrinking vs stretching

shrinking

adj
  • Shy and retiring. 

noun
  • The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away. 

stretching

adj
  • Requiring a high level of effort or performance. 

noun
  • The act by which something is stretched. 

  • A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone. 

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