give vs pledge

give

verb
  • To pledge. 

  • To lead (onto or into). 

  • To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something). 

  • To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. 

  • To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). 

  • To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow. 

  • To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. 

  • To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in. 

  • To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to. 

  • To devote or apply (oneself). 

  • To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. 

  • To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. 

  • To exceed expectations. 

  • To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.). 

  • To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives? 

  • To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). 

  • To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford. 

  • To make a present or gift of. 

  • To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone). 

  • To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. 

  • To yield or collapse under pressure or force. 

  • To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. 

noun
  • The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience. 

pledge

verb
  • To make a solemn promise (to do something). 

  • To deposit something as a security; to pawn. 

  • To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health. 

noun
  • A solemn promise to do something. 

  • The personal property so pledged, to be kept until the debt is paid. 

  • A bailment of personal property to secure payment of a debt without transfer of title. 

  • A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved. 

  • A drinking toast. 

  • An asset or person temporarily handed over to guarantee the fulfilment of something promised, under threat of permanent loss of the thing handed over; surety, security, hostage. 

  • A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol. 

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