abdicate vs discard

abdicate

verb
  • To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. 

  • To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. 

discard

verb
  • To throw away, to reject. 

  • To make a discard; to throw out a card. 

  • To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge. 

noun
  • A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later. 

  • Anything discarded. 

  • A discarded playing card in a card game. 

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