fast vs put down

fast

verb
  • To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet. 

  • (academic) To cause a person or animal to abstain, especially from eating. 

  • To practice religious abstinence, especially from food. 

adj
  • Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc. 

  • Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent. 

  • Causing unusual rapidity of play or action. 

  • Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).) 

  • Able to transfer data in a short period of time. 

  • Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. 

  • Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid. 

  • Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything). 

  • Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people). 

  • More sensitive to light than average. 

  • Ahead of the correct time or schedule. 

intj
  • Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target 

noun
  • The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food 

  • One of the fasting periods in the liturgical year 

  • A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations 

adv
  • Deeply or soundly . 

  • In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound . 

  • Immediately following in place or time; close, very near . 

  • Ahead of the correct time or schedule. 

  • Quickly, with great speed; within a short time . 

put down

verb
  • To make prices, or taxes, lower. 

  • To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle. 

  • To euthanize (an animal). 

  • To pay. 

  • To terminate a call; to hang up. 

  • To give something as a reason for something else. 

  • To add a name to a list. 

  • To insult, belittle, or demean. 

  • To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force. 

  • To land. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down. 

  • To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially. 

  • To write (something). 

  • To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 

  • To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book). 

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