death vs unwind

death

noun
  • The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state. 

  • Spiritual lifelessness. 

  • The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics. 

  • A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone). 

  • The collapse or end of something. 

  • Execution (in the judicial sense). 

unwind

noun
  • Any mechanism or operation that unwinds something. 

verb
  • To undo something. 

  • To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress 

  • To close out a position, especially a complicated position. 

  • To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted. 

  • To analyse (a call stack) so as to generate a stack trace etc. 

  • To separate (something that is wound up) 

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