twirl vs upend

twirl

verb
  • To twist round. 

  • To pitch. 

  • To rotate rapidly. 

  • To perform a twirl. 

noun
  • A little twist of some substance; a swirl. 

  • A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette. 

  • Any rotating movement; a spin. 

  • A prison guard. 

upend

verb
  • To tip or turn over. 

  • To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. 

  • To end up; to set on end. 

  • To affect or upset drastically. 

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