bunch vs crowd

bunch

verb
  • To be gathered together in folds 

  • To form a bunch. 

  • To protrude or swell 

  • To gather fabric into folds. 

  • To gather into a bunch. 

noun
  • A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together. 

  • A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. 

  • An informal body of friends. 

  • A considerable amount. 

  • A group of logs tied together for skidding. 

  • An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock. 

  • The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle. 

  • The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race. 

  • An unmentioned amount; a number. 

  • An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added. 

crowd

verb
  • To fill by pressing or thronging together 

  • To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. 

  • To press together or collect in numbers 

  • To press forward; to advance by pushing. 

  • To push, to press, to shove. 

  • To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. 

  • To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. 

  • To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. 

noun
  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. 

  • A fiddle. 

  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. 

  • The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. 

  • Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 

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