calm vs hurry

calm

verb
  • To make calm. 

  • To become 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. 

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. 

hurry

verb
  • To do things quickly. 

  • Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. 

  • To cause to be done quickly. 

  • To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. 

  • To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. 

  • To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway. 

noun
  • Rushed action. 

  • Urgency. 

  • an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. 

  • A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation. 

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