check off vs underline

check off

verb
  • To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory); to tick off (UK), tick (UK), cross off, strike off. 

  • To carry out a decision recorded through the process of checking off an item on a list, including dealing with it, removing it from the possible choices, or removing the not checked items from further consideration. 

  • To deduct union members' dues from their wages. 

underline

verb
  • To emphasise or stress something 

  • To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore 

noun
  • A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink. 

  • The character _. 

adj
  • Passing under a railway line. 

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