calm vs grief

calm

noun
  • The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion. 

  • A period of time without wind. 

  • The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance. 

verb
  • To become calm. 

  • To make calm. 

adj
  • with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled. 

  • Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety. 

  • Free of noise and disturbance. 

  • Without wind or storm. 

grief

noun
  • Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial. 

  • Suffering, hardship. 

  • Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. 

verb
  • To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game. 

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