dead-end vs strait

dead-end

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

strait

noun
  • A narrow pass, passage or street. 

  • A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water. 

  • A difficult position. 

  • A neck of land; an isthmus. 

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