give vs shoehorn

give

verb
  • To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something). 

  • To lead (onto or into). 

  • To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. 

  • To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). 

  • To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow. 

  • To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. 

  • To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in. 

  • To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to. 

  • To devote or apply (oneself). 

  • To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. 

  • To pledge. 

  • To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. 

  • To exceed expectations. 

  • To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.). 

  • To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives? 

  • To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). 

  • To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford. 

  • To make a present or gift of. 

  • To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone). 

  • To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. 

  • To yield or collapse under pressure or force. 

  • To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. 

noun
  • The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience. 

shoehorn

verb
  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

noun
  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

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