close out vs impede

close out

verb
  • Synonym of close (“to make a sale”) 

  • To terminate; to call the end of. 

  • To terminate a computer program. 

  • To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position. 

  • Of a wave, to break all at once, instead of progressively along its length. 

  • To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join. 

  • To seal off. 

impede

verb
  • To get in the way of; to hinder. 

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