abscond vs scram

abscond

verb
  • To flee, often secretly; to steal away. 

  • To evade, to hide or flee from. 

  • To abandon a hive. 

  • To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process 

  • To hide, to be in hiding or concealment. 

scram

verb
  • To leave in a hurry; to go away. 

  • To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw. 

  • Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency. 

  • To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency. 

noun
  • A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency. 

  • The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown. 

  • A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails. 

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