meet vs retreat

meet

verb
  • To balance or come out correct. 

  • To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting. 

  • To touch or hit something while moving. 

  • To converge and finally touch or intersect. 

  • To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute. 

  • To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of. 

  • To satisfy; to comply with. 

  • To come face to face with someone by arrangement. 

  • To get acquainted with someone. 

  • To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. 

  • To play a match. 

  • To come together in conflict. 

  • To adjoin, be physically touching. 

  • To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer. 

noun
  • The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧. 

  • A meeting. 

  • A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. 

  • A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. 

  • A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming. 

retreat

verb
  • To slope back. 

  • To withdraw military forces 

  • To shrink back due to generally warmer temperatures. 

  • To withdraw from a position, go back. 

  • a retreating forehead 

noun
  • A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security. 

  • The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position. 

  • A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base. 

  • A military ceremony to lower the flag. 

  • The move of a piece from a threatened position. 

  • A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude. 

  • A period of meditation, prayer or study. 

  • The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant. 

  • A signal for a military withdrawal. 

  • Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack. 

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