drown vs retrieve

drown

verb
  • To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. 

  • To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. 

  • To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. 

  • To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. 

  • To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. 

retrieve

verb
  • To rescue (a creature). 

  • 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 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 drown and retrieve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )