relieve vs upset

relieve

verb
  • To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or worried, to alleviate the distress of. 

  • To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort. 

  • To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc. 

  • To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to. 

  • To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.). 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To ease one's own desire to orgasm, often through masturbation to orgasm. 

  • To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on. 

  • To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place. 

  • To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty). 

upset

verb
  • To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • To be upset or knocked over. 

  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 

  • To tip or overturn (something). 

  • To defeat unexpectedly. 

  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. 

  • To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 

noun
  • An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. 

  • The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. 

  • An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. 

  • An overturn. 

  • Disturbance or disruption. 

  • An upset stomach. 

adj
  • Angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. 

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