abandon vs realize

abandon

verb
  • To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. 

  • To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. 

  • To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. 

  • To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. 

  • To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss. 

noun
  • A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. 

realize

verb
  • To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get 

  • To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time). 

  • To cause to seem real to other people. 

  • To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound. 

  • To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence 

  • To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc. 

  • To sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience. 

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