escape vs pluck

escape

verb
  • To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. 

  • To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. 

  • To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. 

  • To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys. 

  • To get free; to free oneself. 

  • To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. 

noun
  • Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. 

  • escape key 

  • A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. 

  • A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. 

  • A successful shot from a snooker position. 

  • The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. 

  • The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). 

  • Something that has escaped; an escapee. 

  • An apophyge. 

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 escape and pluck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )