bathe vs retrieve

bathe

noun
  • The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. 

verb
  • She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical. 

  • To sunbathe. 

  • To cover or surround. 

  • To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. 

  • To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. 

  • To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. 

  • To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. 

retrieve

verb
  • To remember or recall something. 

  • To regain or get back something. 

  • To fetch and bring in game. 

  • To salvage something 

  • To make a difficult but successful return of the ball. 

  • To fetch and bring in game systematically. 

  • To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record. 

  • To rescue (a creature). 

  • To remedy or rectify something. 

  • To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game. 

noun
  • The return of a difficult ball 

  • A retrieval 

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