lash vs release

lash

verb
  • To throw out with a jerk or quickly. 

  • To utter censure or sarcastic language. 

  • To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity. 

  • To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down. 

  • Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out. 

  • To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash. 

  • To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. 

  • To ply the whip; to strike. 

  • To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten. 

noun
  • The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. 

  • A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish. 

  • A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut. 

  • An attempt; a go at something. 

  • In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure. 

  • A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment. 

  • A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash. 

  • Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear). 

adj
  • Excellent, wonderful. 

  • Drunk. 

  • Soft, watery, wet. 

release

verb
  • to come out; be out. 

  • To set free a chemical substance. 

  • To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain. 

  • To make available to the public. 

  • To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of. 

  • To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity 

  • To free or liberate; to set free. 

  • (of a call) To hang up. 

  • To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit. 

  • To discharge. 

  • To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. 

noun
  • The act or manner of ending a sound. 

  • In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations. 

  • The giving up of a claim, especially a debt. 

  • Anything recently released or made available (as for sale). 

  • A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit. 

  • The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload. 

  • The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken 

  • Orgasm. 

  • A kind of bridge used in jazz music. 

  • The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private. 

  • The process by which a chemical substance is set free. 

  • The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms). 

  • That which is released, untied or let go. 

  • Liberation from pain or suffering. 

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