dead-end vs gut

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

gut

verb
  • To eviscerate. 

  • To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of). 

  • To remove or destroy the most important parts of. 

adj
  • Instinctive. 

  • Made of gut. 

noun
  • A narrow passage of water. 

  • A class that is not demanding or challenging. 

  • The alimentary canal, especially the intestine. 

  • The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc. 

  • The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged 

  • A person's emotional, visceral self. 

  • The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line. 

How often have the words dead-end and gut occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )