border vs cancel

border

verb
  • To put a border on something. 

  • To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon). 

  • To form a border around; to bound. 

  • To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with). 

  • To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of. 

noun
  • A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string. 

  • The outer edge of something. 

  • A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown. 

  • border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup. 

  • The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. 

  • A decorative strip around the edge of something. 

cancel

verb
  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • To kill. 

  • To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation. 

  • To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture. 

  • To invalidate or annul something. 

  • To stop production of a programme. 

  • To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused. 

noun
  • A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English). 

  • The page thus suppressed. 

  • A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message. 

  • The page that replaces it. 

  • The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages. 

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