bear off vs differ

bear off

verb
  • To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything. 

  • To gain; to carry off, as a prize. 

  • To restrain; to keep from approaching. 

  • To remove one of one's own checkers from the board. The first player to bear off all checkers is the winner. 

differ

verb
  • To be separated in quantity. 

  • Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike or distinct. 

  • To have diverging opinions, disagree. 

noun
  • A program that diffs, a diff. 

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