put down vs yank

put down

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

  • 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 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). 

yank

verb
  • To pull (something) with a quick, strong action. 

  • To remove from distribution. 

noun
  • A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force). 

  • A Yankee. 

  • A masturbation session. 

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