starve vs tuck away

starve

verb
  • To be very hungry. 

  • 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 deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. 

tuck away

verb
  • To eat a lot of (something). 

  • To save or hoard (something); to hide (something) in a safe spot; to squirrel away. 

  • To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot. 

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