put out vs retire

put out

verb
  • To expel. 

  • To cause a player on offense to be out. 

  • To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb. 

  • To dislocate (a joint). 

  • To knock out: to eliminate from a competition. 

  • To blind (eyes). 

  • To remove from office. 

  • To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail. 

  • To broadcast, to publish. 

  • To produce, to emit. 

  • To place outside, to remove, particularly 

  • To extinguish (fire). 

  • To consent to sex. 

  • Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious. 

  • To turn off (light). 

adj
  • Taking offense; indignant. 

noun
  • The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused. 

retire

verb
  • To withdraw; to take away. 

  • To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness. 

  • To cease use or production of something. 

  • To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy. 

  • To fit (a vehicle) with new tires. 

  • To recede; to fall or bend back. 

  • To go to bed. 

  • To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat. 

  • To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure. 

  • To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay. 

  • To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list. 

  • To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. 

noun
  • The act of retiring, or the state of being retired. 

  • A place to which one retires. 

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