raw vs stale

raw

adj
  • Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. 

  • Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc. 

  • Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. 

  • (of food) Not cooked. 

  • Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. 

  • New or inexperienced. 

  • Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. 

  • Uncorrected, without analysis. 

  • Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. 

  • Unpleasantly cold or damp. 

noun
  • A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed. 

  • A galled place; an inveterate sore. 

  • A point about which a person is particularly sensitive. 

  • An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such. 

  • A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated. 

adv
  • Without a condom. 

verb
  • To anally or vaginally penetrate without a condom. 

stale

adj
  • No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc. 

  • Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks. 

  • Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy. 

  • Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions. 

  • No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; cliche, hackneyed, dated. 

  • Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition. 

  • Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time. 

noun
  • A stalemate; a stalemated game. 

  • One of the rungs on a ladder. 

  • The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc. 

  • Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh. 

  • A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.) 

  • One of the posts or uprights of a ladder. 

verb
  • To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. 

  • To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption. 

  • To stalemate. 

  • To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age. 

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