bury vs cancel

bury

verb
  • To kill or murder. 

  • To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out. 

  • To outlive. 

  • To score a goal. 

  • To place in the ground. 

  • To suppress and hide away in one's mind. 

  • To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. 

  • To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. 

  • To put an end to; to abandon. 

noun
  • A borough; a manor 

cancel

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To cross out something with lines etc. 

  • To offset or equalize something. 

  • 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 bury and cancel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )