aground vs cast away

aground

adj
  • at a loss, ruined, with no way out 

  • Resting on the bottom. 

adv
  • Resting on the bottom. 

cast away

verb
  • To abandon or maroon. 

  • To discard. 

  • To eliminate by means of a cast operation. 

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