block out vs shape

block out

verb
  • to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out. 

  • to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see. 

  • to prevent from entering or penetrating. 

  • to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind. 

shape

verb
  • To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. 

  • To create or make. 

  • To give something a shape and definition. 

  • To give influence to. 

  • To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. 

noun
  • Form; formation. 

  • Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. 

  • In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type. 

  • A loaded die. 

  • A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted. 

  • The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. 

  • A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar. 

  • The status or condition of something 

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