ascend vs trickle

ascend

verb
  • To move upward, to fly, to soar. 

  • To slope in an upward direction. 

  • To become higher in pitch. 

  • To succeed. 

  • To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.). 

  • To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman. 

  • To go up. 

  • To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc. 

trickle

verb
  • To move or roll slowly. 

  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. 

  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. 

noun
  • A very thin river. 

  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling. 

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