assist vs put down

assist

verb
  • To help. 

  • To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring. 

  • To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy. 

noun
  • A decisive pass made to the goal scorer 

  • A helpful action or an act of giving. 

  • A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout. 

put down

verb
  • To write (something). 

  • To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle. 

  • To euthanize (an animal). 

  • To make prices, or taxes, lower. 

  • To pay. 

  • To terminate a call; to hang up. 

  • To give something as a reason for something else. 

  • To add a name to a list. 

  • To insult, belittle, or demean. 

  • To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force. 

  • To land. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down. 

  • To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially. 

  • To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 

  • To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book). 

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