jolt vs retard

jolt

noun
  • An act of jolting. 

  • A surprise or shock. 

  • A narcotic injection. 

  • A long prison sentence. 

verb
  • To shock emotionally. 

  • To push or shake abruptly and roughly. 

  • To shake; to move with a series of jerks. 

  • To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert 

  • To knock sharply 

retard

noun
  • A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando. 

  • Retardation; delay. 

  • A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn. 

verb
  • To put off; to postpone. 

  • To decelerate; to slow down. 

  • To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing. 

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