relegate vs yield

relegate

verb
  • Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof. 

  • Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification. 

  • Exile or banish to a particular place. 

  • Remove or send to a place far away. 

  • Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate. 

  • Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority. 

  • Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division. 

  • Banish from proximity to Rome for a set time; compare relegate. 

yield

verb
  • To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. 

  • To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. 

  • To produce as a result. 

  • To give, or give forth, (anything). 

  • To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. 

  • To produce as return, as from an investment. 

  • To give way; to succumb to a force. 

  • To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. 

  • To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. 

  • To give way; to allow another to pass first. 

noun
  • Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. 

  • A product; the quantity of something produced. 

  • The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. 

  • The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. 

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