cancel vs execute

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. 

execute

verb
  • To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime. 

  • To run, usually successfully. 

  • Coordinate term: murder 

  • To carry out; to put into effect. 

  • To perform. 

  • To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing. 

  • To start, launch or run 

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