starve vs surfeit

starve

verb
  • To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold. 

  • To die because of lack of food or of not eating. 

  • To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food. 

  • To deteriorate for want of any essential thing. 

  • To be very hungry. 

  • To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. 

surfeit

noun
  • Disgust caused by excess; satiety. 

  • A group of skunks. 

  • A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence. 

  • Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating. 

  • An excessive amount of something. 

verb
  • To fill (something) to excess. 

  • To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance. 

  • To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively). 

  • To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something). 

  • To indulge (in something) to excess. 

  • To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something). 

  • To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively). 

  • To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption. 

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