bag vs lose

bag

verb
  • To forget, ignore, or get rid of. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To laugh uncontrollably. 

  • To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest. 

  • To steal. 

  • To put into a bag. 

  • To fit with a bag to collect urine. 

  • To hang like an empty bag. 

  • To drop away from the correct course. 

  • To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. 

  • To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. 

  • To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator. 

  • To criticise sarcastically. 

  • To furnish or load with a bag. 

noun
  • A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath. 

  • One's preference. 

  • A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags. 

  • A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods. 

  • The scrotum. 

  • A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated. 

  • £1000, a grand. 

  • A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance. 

  • An ugly woman. 

  • A fellow gay man. 

  • The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base. 

  • A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics. 

  • A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • First, second, or third base. 

  • A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig. 

  • A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds. 

  • The quantity of game bagged in a hunt. 

lose

verb
  • To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss. 

  • To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer. 

  • To shed (weight). 

  • To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. 

  • To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident. 

  • To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate. 

  • To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from. 

  • To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of. 

  • To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). 

  • To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer. 

  • To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend). 

  • To be deprived of access to something. 

  • To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion). 

  • To give or owe (money) after losing a bet. 

  • Of a clock, to run slower than expected. 

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