dead-end vs shelve

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

shelve

verb
  • To set aside; to quit or postpone. 

  • To place on a shelf. 

  • To furnish with shelves. 

  • To slope; to incline; to form into shelves. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion. 

noun
  • A rocky ledge or shelf. 

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