put vs remove

put

verb
  • To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention. 

  • To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway. 

  • To play a card or a hand in the game called put. 

  • To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. 

  • To express something in a certain manner. 

  • To place something somewhere. 

  • To attach or attribute; to assign. 

  • To exercise a put option. 

  • To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.) 

  • To steer; to direct one's course; to go. 

noun
  • A right to sell something at a predetermined price. 

  • The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. 

  • An old card game. 

remove

verb
  • To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.). 

  • To murder. 

  • To dismiss or discharge from office. 

  • To move something or someone from one place to another, especially to take away. 

  • To dismiss a batsman. 

  • To delete. 

noun
  • Distance in time or space; interval. 

  • A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove") 

  • (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last 

  • Emotional distance or indifference. 

  • The act of resetting a horse's shoe. 

  • The act of removing something. 

  • A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course. 

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