bereave vs leave someone in the lurch

bereave

verb
  • To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive. 

  • To destroy life; cut off. 

  • To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim. 

  • To deprive of power; prevent. 

leave someone in the lurch

verb
  • To abandon somebody; especially, to abandon somebody and leave him or her in a difficult situation. 

How often have the words bereave and leave someone in the lurch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )