sortie vs withdrawal

sortie

noun
  • An act of venturing out to do a task, etc. 

  • An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth. 

  • An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft. 

  • An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally. 

  • An act of trying to enter a new field of activity. 

  • An attacking move. 

  • Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”) 

  • A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session. 

verb
  • To carry out a sortie; to sally. 

withdrawal

noun
  • An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn. 

  • A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation. 

  • The sum of money taken from a bank account. 

  • Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money. 

  • A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is dependent is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier. 

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