lessen vs weaken

lessen

verb
  • To become less. 

  • To make less; to diminish; to reduce. 

conj
  • unless. 

weaken

verb
  • To become weaker or less strong. 

  • To make weaker or less strong. 

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