grab vs put down

grab

verb
  • To restrain someone; to arrest. 

  • To consume something quickly. 

  • To take the opportunity of. 

  • To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). 

  • To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest. 

  • To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. 

  • To quickly collect or retrieve. 

noun
  • An acquisition by violent or unjust means. 

  • A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven. 

  • A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast. 

  • A mechanical device that grabs or clutches. 

  • A sound bite. 

  • A simple card game. 

  • A sudden snatch at something. 

put down

verb
  • 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 write (something). 

  • To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 

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

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