choke out vs dry up

choke out

verb
  • To destroy (something) by depriving it of a vital resource. 

  • To cause (a person) to lose consciousness by applying a chokehold. 

  • To say (something) with difficulty, while or as if choking. 

  • To extinguish (fire) (by depriving it of oxygen or fuel). 

  • To prevent (light) from passing through. 

  • To prevent (something) from growing by overwhelming it or robbing it of nutrients. 

dry up

verb
  • To deprive someone of (something vital). 

  • To manually dry dishes. 

  • To cause to become dry. 

  • To cease to exist; to disappear 

  • To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. 

  • When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs. 

  • To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say. 

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