put down vs win

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). 

win

verb
  • To obtain (something desired). 

  • To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over). 

  • To defeat or surpass someone or something. 

  • To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). 

  • To achieve victory. 

  • To have power, coercion or control. 

  • To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). 

  • To cause a victory for someone. 

  • To extract (ore, coal, etc.). 

  • To dry by exposure to the wind. 

  • To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest. 

noun
  • A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement. 

  • An individual victory. 

  • Pleasure; joy; delight. 

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