cleanse vs pluck

cleanse

verb
  • To remove (something seen as unpleasant) from a person, place, or thing. 

  • To free from dirt; to clean, to purify. 

  • To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge. 

noun
  • An act of cleansing; a purification. 

pluck

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

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