put down vs uplift

put down

verb
  • To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially. 

  • 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 write (something). 

  • To place a baby somewhere to sleep. 

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

uplift

verb
  • To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession. 

  • To aggravate; to increase. 

  • To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level. 

  • To be accepted for carriage on a flight. 

  • To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization. 

noun
  • An increase in a fine or penalty due to aggravating circumstances. 

  • The picking up and loading of goods to be transported by a mover. 

  • The act or result of being uplifted. 

  • A brassiere that raises the breasts. 

  • A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building. 

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